Black Girl You Are Atlas AutHan.Moushabeck Perfect for little dreamers who

Perfect for little dreamers who love to craft their own fairy tales – no fairy dust required

Drawing closely from the original text

just like the scarecrow in the field

who relies on his inner strength and his typing skills to break racial barriers after he begins attending a "whites-only" high school

this inventive book hints at what is making the sound

Black Girl You Are Atlas AutHan.Moushabeck Perfect for little dreamers whoA Coretta Scott King Honor Book Winner of the Walter Dean Myers Award A thoughtful celebration of Black girlhood by award winning author and poet Rene Watson. In this semi autobiographical collection of poems, Rene Watson writes about her experience growing up as a young Black girl at the intersections of race, class, and gender. Using a variety of poetic forms, from haiku to free verse, Watson shares recollections of her childhood in Portland, tender