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  • Review of We March

    Written by Shane W. Evans I have never read this book before. Ratings: Amazon: 4.8 out of 5 stars. Goodreads: 4.17 out of 5 stars. Summary: “We March” is about what happened on August 28, 1963, when over 250,000 people marched in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. This was the day that…

  • Review of The Baby Tree

    Written by Sophie Blackall I have never read this book before. Ratings: Amazon: 4.4 out of 5 stars. Goodreads: 3.97 out of 5 stars. Summary: This story is about a little boy’s curious journey to find out where babies are from when he is told that he will have a sibling.   Access to this…

  • Review of When Aiden Became a Brother

    Written by Kyle Lukoff, and illustrated by Kaylani Juanita I have never read this book before. Ratings: Amazon: 4.8 out of 5 stars. Goodreads: 4.55 out of 5 stars. The American Library Association awarded this book the Stonewall Book Award. Summary: This story shows Aiden’s journey in gender identity and how he feels about being…

  • Review of Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag

    Written by Rob Sanders, and illustrated by Steven Salerno I have never read this book before. Ratings: Amazon: 4.9 out of 5 stars. Goodreads: 4.33 out of 5 stars. Summary: This story is about how an openly gay man becomes the first elected official in the United States and how the LGBTQ community received their…

  • Review of In Our Mothers’ House

    Written by Patricia Polacco I have never read this book before. Ratings: Amazon: 4.7 out of 5 stars. Goodreads: 4.3 out of 5 stars. Summary: This is about what it is like inside the home of a lesbian couple and their adopted children.   This book was restricted in May 2012 in Utah’s Davis County…

  • Review of Gender Queer: A Memoir

    This book was written and illustrated by Maia Kobabe. I have never read this book before. Ratings: Amazon: 4.5 out of 5 stars. Goodreads: 4.29 out of 5 stars. Summary: (copied from Amazon) In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e…

  • Review of “I am Jazz”

    This children’s book was written by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings, illustrated by Shelagh McNicholas. I have never read this book before, but I have heard about Jazz in the news and on talk shows. Ratings: Amazon: 4.7 out of 5 stars (the highest I’ve ever seen!). Goodreads: 4.12 out of 5 stars. Summary: (copied…

  • Review: “and tango makes three”

    This children’s book was written by Justin Riehardson and Peter Parnell, illustrated by Henry Cole. I have never read this book before, but I have heard about this penguin story back when it came on the news, before the book was written. (I’m not ancient, I promise!) Ratings: Amazon: 4.9 out of 5 stars (the…

  • Review of Let’s Talk about It: The Teen’s Guide to Sex, Relationships, and Being a Human.

    This graphic guidebook was written by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan Written by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan, layout assistance by Maria Frantz I have never read this book before. Ratings: Amazon: 4.2 out of 5 stars. Goodreads: 4.11 out of 5 stars. Summary: Essentially it is a graphic sex education, but it’s more than…

  • A Review of Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation

    This book was adapted by Ari Folman and illustrated by David Polonsky. To date, this book was a 2019 SEE-IT Award Finalist, 2019 EGL Award Finalist, Young Adult Nonfiction, and named Best Jewish Children’s Books – 2018. I have read an abridged version for middle school, but I have never read the graphic version before.…