A People Magazine Best Kids Book of the Year

Tips are included throughout to help them feel confident and empowered as they grow

achingly dull

now everyone can hear their cries

a 12–year–old Palestinian–American girl is yelled at by a group of men outside the Church of the Nativity

Roar for Reading Fanny Rodriguez A People Magazine Best KidsFrom New York Times bestselling author Beth Ferry and New York Times bestselling illustrator Andrew Joyner comes a moving picture book about a brave little lion who decides to speak out for stories by standing up to book banning. Libraries and lions have a history so long no ones quite sure how it beganmaybe because books were once rare and needed fierce protectors? Still, its been a very long time since lions had to roar in the name of books. But