WLT Book Buzz Episode #2 - Reading History: Partition, the Tulsa Race Massacre, Bold Women & More
In this second episode of WLT Book Buzz, Laura Hernandez & Bunmi Ishola cover 42 books that connect with history. Find out what they read this summer and why these books should be on your shelf. Partition, World War II, the Tulsa Race Massacre, and the architect Zaha Hadid: these are just a few of the topics covered in this show with shout-outs to Jewell Parker Rhodes, Jacqueline Woodson, and NSK finalist Laurie Halse Anderson.
Books in Episode 2, Historical Fiction & Nonfiction:
Magic City, by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Black Brother, Black Brother, by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre, by Carole Boston Weatherford & illustrated by Floyd Cooper
Dreamland Burning, by Jennifer Latham
The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice, by Scott Ellsworth
Red at the Bone, by Jacqueline Woodson
The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read, by Rita Lorraine Hubbard & illustrated by Oge Mora
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History, by Vashti Harrison
Paper Son: The Inspiring Story of Tyrus Wong, Immigrant and Artist, by Julie Leung & illustrated by Chris Sasaki
The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist, by Cynthia Levinson & illustrated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton
The World Is Not a Rectangle: A Portrait of Architect Zaha Hadid, written & illustrated by Jeanette Winter
Building Zaha: The Story of Architect Zaha Hadid, written &illustrated by Victoria Tentler-Krylov
Drum Dream Girl, by Margarita Engel & illustrated by Rafael López
I Am Not a Number, by Jenny Kay Dupuis & Kathy Kacer & illustrated by Gillian Newland
That Book Woman, by Heather Henson; illustrated by David Small
The Night Diary, by Veera Hiranandani
She Persisted chapter book series
One Crazy Summer, by Rita Williams-Garcia
Caminar, by Skila Brown
When Stars Are Scattered, by Victoria Jamieson & Omar Mohamed
Amal Unbound, by Aisha Saeed
Before the Ever After, by Jacqueline Woodson
Punching the Air, by Ibi Zoboi
The Light in Hidden Places, by Sharon Cameron
Code Name Verity, by Elizabeth Wein
Between Shades of Gray, by Ruta Sepetys
Salt to the Sea, by Ruta Sepetys
Orange for the Sunsets, by Tina Athaide
Persepolis (graphic novel in two parts), by Marjane Satrapi
Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World, by Pénélope Bagieu
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, by Isabel Wilkerson
Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi
Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom, by Yeonmi Park with Maryanne Vollers
The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity and My Fight Against the Islamic State, by Nadia Murad
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, by Trevor Noah
Shout, by Laurie Halse Anderson
Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson
Chains, by Laurie Halse Anderson
Wintergirls, by Laurie Halse Anderson
