Santa in the CityA little girl's belief in Santa is restored in this ode to the magic of Christmas. This is a holiday gift readers will treasure for years to come! It's two weeks before Christmas, and Deja is worried that Santa might not be able to visit her after all, as a city kid, she doesn't have a chimney for him to come down and none of the parking spots on her block could fit a sleigh, let alone eight reindeer! But with a little help from her family, community,

to help fix a PR fiasco involving a racially tone-deaf campaign

She's also waiting for her new sister to be born -- and hoping the baby doesn't ruin everything

as does the rear endpapers' photograph of the massacre's aftermath

Board of Education in 1954

Raybearer is the story of loyalty

--Samantha Shannon

Among these women

Black boy joy is

really knows it all

a mother and daughter look forward to their special Saturday routine together every single week

a celebration -- about feeling at home in one's own beloved skin

joyful illustrations that make this neighborhood--based on the Roxbury neighborhood in Boston where the author and illustrator grew up together as cousins--truly sing