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But Eli has been hiding their skills ever since their time in the spotlight gave them a nervous breakdown

family and legacy

This is a very difficult time for children and can be confusing

and Caldecott Medal–winning author-illustrator Dan Santat—comes Detective Duck: The Case of the Strange Splash

Gone Wolf Rashad Doucet A BookPage Best of theAward winning author Amber McBride lays bare the fears of being young and Black in America, in this middle grade novel that has been compared to the work of Jordan Peele and praised as "brilliantly inventive storytelling" by Publishers Weekly. . In the future, a Black girl known only as Inmate Eleven is kept confined to be used as a biological match for the president's son, should he fall ill. She is called a Blue the color of sadness. She lives in a