Knuckleheaddear Knucklehead, perhaps you are like me: always figuring out if your soul and your skin are thick enough to protect your body from sticky stones thrown from the mouths of those who know that spoken words have the power to spit out freedom and break in bones. While society often assigns the label knucklehead to kids with attitude problems, this brilliant and electric poetry collection by spoken word poet and hip hop educator Tony Keith Jr. subverts

As the siblings run errands to help prepare for a very special day in their family

ozone depletion

along with the gallant Scum Bunch

In the spirit of A Short History of Nearly Everything comes Periodic Tales

finds herself among princes in the School for Good

Kent gets creative with ingredients on everyone’s shelves

and daring rebellion

richly imagined fantasy set in an alternate ancient African world in which a Black girl finds her power and saves her people from evil

He became the first person to simultaneously star in two major professional sports

Rory the rockhopper penguin loves showing off

“Concetta Bertoldi is definitely not your run-of-the-mill medium

*Features original tracks from the author’s band