Susan Hughes. Owlkids (PGW, dist.), $12.95 paper (64p) ISBN 978-1-926818-86-3
Photographs, accessible prose, and personal accounts paint a portrait of innovative schools in this vibrant, globe-trotting guide. In post-Katrina New Orleans, students plant an “edible schoolyard.” In Kenya, a school provides dowries for fathers—in
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Susan Hughes, illus. by Carey Sookocheff. Owl Kids, $19.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-77147-165-7
An unnamed, intellectually curious child with a mop of hair is chased, teased, and ridiculed by a girl referred to as “Bully B.,” who “looks me up and down. Shoves my books. Calls me Weirdo.” Sookocheff illustrates the characters with simple strokes,
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Susan Hughes, illus. by Valérie Boivin. Kids Can, $18.99 (36p) ISBN 978-1-77138-653-1
In this fictionalized approach to the life of journalist and activist Jane Jacobs, readers meet the subject as a child who is inquisitive and practical minded—traits that Jacobs carries into adulthood. After moving to New York City, Jacobs observes...
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Susan Hughes, illus. by Nicole Miles. Kids Can, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-5253-0249-7
Despite being twins, eight-year-olds Victor and Linesi experience life differently in their small village in Malawi. While Victor attends school, his sister must drop out to collect water every day for their family’s needs: “Five walks to the river...
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