Description: When Imani becomes disheartened by nay-sayers of her plan to cleanup the beach, her grandmother offers her much needed encouragement.
Brief description: Cicely Lewis is a school librarian with a passion for creating lovers of reading based in Georgia. In 2017, she started the Read Woke challenge in response to the shootings of young unarmed black people, the repeal of DACA, and the lack of diversity in young adult literature. She was named the 2020 National Librarian of the Year by School Library Journal and Scholastic, a 2019 Library Journal Mover and Shaker and the 2019 National Teacher Award for Lifelong Readers by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and Penguin Random House (PRH).
Review Quotes:
"Each volume includes discussion questions at the end of the story as well as a real-life profile and photo of a person or organization that has done something remarkable related to Imani's latest adventure. Full-color illustrations are included throughout these simple but appealing tales that center a Black child's experience in the world."--School Library Journal
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