The Obelisk Gate

The Obelisk GateEssun's missing daughter grows more powerful every day, and her choices may destroy the world in this "magnificent" Hugo Award winner and NYT Notable Book. (NPR) The season of endings grows darker, as civilization fades into the long cold night. Essun once Damaya, once Syenite, now avenger has found shelter, but not her daughter. Instead there is Alabaster Tenring, destroyer of the world, with a request. But if Essun does what he asks, it would seal

but also the twins’ relationship

in the end

this intense and evocative story of racial unrest in prewar North Carolina ends with a dramatic match between white and Black little league teams

following a narrative and packing in fascinating facts and concepts along the way

encouraging kids to value themselves and others

Still reeling from her recent battle (and grounded until she graduates high school)

Instead of a crown

In the timely yet timeless picture book Home Is in Between

Then Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez teamed up

In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide

and stuck on again without tearing or losing their “stick

stall out at middle levels