Jo Ann Allen Boyce and Debbie Levy. Bloomsbury, $17.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-68119-852-1
Boyce, one of 12 black students who integrated Clinton, Tennessee’s public high school in August 1956, following racial desegregation, relays the story of that harrowing experience in verse. Levy (I Dissent) notes that poetry is a particularly...
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Debbie Levy, Author Disney-Hyperion $16.99 (136p) ISBN 978-1-4231-2901-1
Artfully weaving together her mother’s poesiealbum
(autograph/poetry album), diary, and her own verse, Levy crafts a poignant portrait of her Jewish mother’s life in 1938 Nazi Germany that crackles with adolescent vitality. Chapters...
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Debbie Levy. Bloomsbury, $19.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-5476-1221-5
“There was never before, and has never been, another day in court like it,” asserts Levy (Change Is in the Air) in this riveting work about The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, commonly known as the Scopes Monkey Trial. Following his first...
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Debbie Levy, Author, Stephanie Buscema, Illustrator , illus. by Stephanie Buscema. Sterling $14.95 (24p) ISBN 978-1-4027-4944-5
Bedtime is the subject of the 20 poems in this rambunctious picture book; verse and artwork alike have a retro feel with a slightly modern edge. An invitation to sleep “over” is met with dread (“ 'Are you quite sure?’
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Debbie Levy, illus. by Vanessa Brantley-Newton. Disney-Jump at the Sun, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4231-1954-8
The power of song to bolster courage, combat bigotry, and effect change courses through this dramatization of the civil rights movement. The lyrics to several variations of “We Shall Overcome” serve as a backdrop to Levy’s fluid free verse, which...
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Debbie Levy, illus. by Elizabeth Baddeley. Simon & Schuster, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4814-6559-5
Ruth Bader Ginsburg had ample experience dissenting and objecting long before she reached the U.S. Supreme Court, according to Levy’s (Dozer’s Run) spirited picture book biography of the second woman to sit on the high court. Bucking all trends,...
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Debbie Levy, illus. by Boris Kulikov. Bloomsbury, $20.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-5476-0802-7
Following WWII, a brutal winter was descending on war-torn Europe, and “children’s bellies growled,” writes Levy (The Key from Spain)—“There was peace, but not enough to eat.” In Washington, D.C., journalist Drew Pearson (1897–1969) had an idea: a...
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Debbie Levy, illus. by Whitney Gardner. Simon & Schuster, $19.99 (208p) ISBN 978-1-5344-2455-5
Form follows content in Levy and Gardner’s methodical but spirited graphic novel primer on the female Supreme Court justice. The narrative plants seeds early on that bloom later in Ginsburg’s career: her first brushes with anti-Semitism as a child...
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Debbie Levy, illus. by Gilbert Ford. Disney-Hyperion, $18.99 (80p) ISBN 978-1-4847-2598-6
Through insightful narration and vibrant silhouettes and cartooning, Levy (I Dissent) and Ford (The Marvelous Thing That Came from a Spring) vividly bring to life a chapter in the U.S. Civil War and the integral role music played during the conflict.
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