A Flea for Justice
by Valerie Boling
May 6, 2025
ISBN 978-1665934725
​Ages 4 - 8 years

Marian Wright Edelman is a flea for justice. Just like her hero, Sojourner Truth, Marian pushes for change even when it's uncomfortable. She makes people itch, just like a flea.

A historical and political picture book biography for 6-9-year-olds about Black perseverance. An aspiring read for future activists and changemakers!

As Marian Wright Edelman grows up, she never loses the spirit she had as a child when she swapped the signs on water fountains designating where Black and white people were allowed to drink.

Marian learns about Sojourner Truth, and she decides to make people itch in order to make change, just like Sojourner did. Marian becomes the first Black woman lawyer in Mississippi, and she creates the Children’s Defense Fund, which continues to be a voice for poor children, children of color, and children with disabilities today.
We're in This Together: Leo's Lunch Box
by Raphael G. Warnock
April 15, 2025
ISBN 9780593691526
​Ages 4 - 8 years
A powerful modern-day story about sharing what you have, based on the biblical Feeding of the Five Thousand, by Reverend Senator Raphael Warnock.

It’s lunchtime at school, and Leo knows exactly what he’s going to have: a baloney sandwich. His mom does the best she can, but sometimes Leo wishes they could afford more than baloney sandwiches. Then one day, the unexpected happens: His mom gets a new job and buys him a lunch box at a yard sale. Suddenly, he’s got something other than a baloney sandwich! Even more amazing, Leo’s delicious lunch begins to multiply, and the more he shares, the more he receives.

A powerful modern-day story about sharing what you have, based on the biblical story of the Feeding of the Five Thousand, Reverend Senator Raphael Warnock’s tale of empathy, community, and caring for others comes to life with TeMika Grooms’s warm illustrations in the first book in his We’re in This Together series.
A Century for Caroline
by Kaija Langley
Sep 16, 2025
ISBN 9781623545826
​Ages 6 -9 years
A great grandma imparts the wisdom gained over her one hundred years to an eager little girl in this tender picture book tribute to family and living a long, purposeful, beautiful life, perfect for fans of When Grandma Gives You a Lemon Tree.

Baby girl Jasmine heads south with her dad to join the family in celebrating Great Grandma Caroline’s 100th birthday. Jasmine knows one hundred years is a very long time. It’s longer than a goldfish lives, or a hamster—or even a dog! When she gets to Great Grandma Caroline’s house, she asks: how did she get to be so old?

According to Caroline, living such a long, hearty life takes a heap of patience, a dollop of determination, and a whole lot of faith—just like learning to skip stones on the lake. And the most important thing is surrounding yourself with family and those who love you.
Our Differences Make Us Stronger:  ​How We Heal Together
​by  La June Montgomery Tabron
January 14, 2025
​ISBN-10   1633311031
ISBN-13    978-1633311039
Kindergarten - 3
A story about sharing our identities and making new friends from La June Montgomery Tabron, the President and CEO of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
La June and her best friend, Jenefer, love going to school in Detroit. They’re in the same class, and they always sit together at lunch. La June is Black and Jenefer is White, and they don’t notice that all the other kids are sitting with friends who look like them.
But when Jenefer moves away, La June doesn’t know where to sit. She feels different. A new girl, Eva, moves into Jenefer’s old house, and everything about her feels different to La June, too.

At school, La June’s teacher tries something new: changing up the seats at lunch time. After, he gathers the class into a circle to talk about why it was hard to sit with different people, what they learned about each other, and how they can share more in the future. La June and her classmates start to understand that sometimes it’s comfortable to be around people who are like us, but we begin to build a community when we learn about people who are different.
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Reflecting the transformative racial healing practices that the W.K. Kellogg Foundation promotes and celebrates around the world, Our Differences Make Us Stronger shows young readers that sharing our stories, listening to others, and learning about our differences are the first steps to building a stronger community.

Getting Us to Grandma's
by Nadia L. Hohn
Oct 1, 2024
ISBN 9781773066899
​Ages 3 - 6 years

No one knows maps like Nikki — but can she get her family to Grandma's house in time?

Nikki’s family is preparing for a long road trip from Toronto to the Bronx to attend Uncle Travis's wedding. They pack their suitcases, boxes of Jamaican black cake, and most importantly to Nikki, the big map book!
Nikki loves geography and enjoys tracing the routes to all the places her relatives live — her Grandpa in Florida, her cousins in Atlanta, DC, and Boston. She daydreams of England, where other family lives, and Jamaica and Africa, where her roots run deep.
Her attention comes back to the road trip when it’s clear that Daddy’s taken a wrong turn. “I can help!” says Nikki, who proves to be an excellent navigator. She guides them back to the Bronx Expressway, under the elevated subway tracks, onto a street of brown row houses and safely to Grandma’s.
Inspired by the childhoods of author Nadia L. Hohn and illustrator TeMika Grooms, Getting Us to Grandma’s is full of fun historic details — a world before Google Maps! — and authentic cultural moments shared by diasporic families, whose stories can be traced across continents. A fantastic representation of Black girls in STEM.

Put Your Shoes on and Get Ready! 
by Raphael G. Warnock
January 2023
ISBN 9780593528877
​Ages 4-8 years

From Georgia's first Black Senator Raphael Warnock comes an inspiring picture book about finding your dreams and making your mark in the world.

Before Raphael Warnock became a pastor and the first Black senator from Georgia, he was a little boy whose father told him to get up, get dressed, put on his shoes, and get ready! So that’s what he did, along every step of his journey. From his work boots to his marching band shoes to his shiny lace-ups, Senator Reverend Warnock found the right shoes to fit his feet and to carry him toward his dreams.
 
This inspirational story, with bold, brilliant art by TeMika Grooms, follows Raphael Warnock’s journey from Savannah, Georgia, to the United States Senate and shows young readers that they, too, can find the power to be themselves and make a difference when they have the shoes that fit their feet.
 

Save the Crash-test Dummies
​Written by Jennifer Swanson
Illustrated by TeMika Grooms 
Published October 1st 2019 by Peachtree Publishing Company
ISBN  1682630226 (ISBN13: 9781682630228)

 2020 PARENT'S CHOICE AWARD
The Eureka Nonfiction
​Children’s Book Awards
Silver Honor Award winner 

​BEST STEM BOOKS OF 2020 

Booklist Top 10 Sci-Tech Books for Youth 2019

FINAL IMAGES 
for Save the Crash-test Dummies

ROUGH SKETCHES 
for Save the Crash-test Dummies
Jump in the driver’s seat for this entertaining, STEM-filled tour of the history of car production and the science and engineering that makes cars safe.
 
Cars take us to work. To School. To soccer practice. To the grocery store and home again.  Can you imagine a world without them?  It’s not so easy!
 
One of the reasons we can use cars so much in our everyday lives is because they are safe to drive.  But that hasn’t always been the case.  If it weren’t for the experiments conducted over decades that involved all kinds of crash test volunteers – dead, alive, animal or automated – cars as we know them might not be around.  And then how would you get to school?
 
Filled with fun four-wheeled nuggets of history and explanations of how cars actually work, this nonfiction book from former science educator and award -winning author Jennifer Swanson will appeal to lovers of all things that go and readers who are interested in getting under the hood and seeing how things work.  Available in eBook.

Awards:
Eureka! Nonfiction Children’s Book Award Silver Honor – California Reading Association
Best STEM Books – ASEE / ITEEA / NSTA / SEPA / CBC
Parent’s Choice Gold Award – Parents’ Choice Foundation
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Kirkus Review
​This jaunt through the history of car safety engineering reveals that we have both human and mechanical crash-test dummies to thank for making driving much safer than it was a century ago, when cars first became ubiquitous.

The now-familiar crash-test dummy has its origins in Sierra Sam, an anthropomorphic test device invented in 1949 to test aircraft ejection seats for the Air Force. In 1968, a new ATD was created to meet car companies’ needs, designed to enable engineers to see how humans move during a crash. Before ATDs, engineers had to use live animals, human cadavers, and live human volunteers in safety tests. The Hybrid III used for the last 30 years is the type of crash-test dummy designed to survive a frontal impact crash. Hybrid III is full of electronics, including “accelerometers, potentiometers, and load cells,” which convey information to engineers that aids them in designing safer cars. In addition to discussing such car safety developments as bumpers, brakes, seat belts, and air bags, Swanson fills her narrative with other fascinating nuggets of automotive history and explanations of how cars work, with helpful accompanying diagrams. She concludes with a look at autonomous cars. Grooms’ illustrations add both touches of humor and visual clarity; they are complemented by archival images.
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Attractively designed and engagingly written—sure to appeal to readers with a taste for the scientific and technical. (Nonfiction. 8-12)