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  Black History Books for Teens
  

  Fiction and nonfiction picks to honor Black History Month and to celebrate the lives, struggles, and achievements of Black Americans all year long.

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  Notable Nonfiction for Teens
  

  Selected winners, honorees, and nominees for the Excellence in Nonfiction Award for Young Adults, the National Book Award, and other nonfiction picks from teen librarians.

Reviews

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  Displacement by Hughes, Kiku,

  ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

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  This is a graphic novel about the Japanese American internment camp experience. Kiku Hughes draws with facts from her own history, as a Yonsei. Displacement as a book contains a mix of fact, fiction, fantasy and history. Kiku never met her grandmother who died before she was born, she writes though with incomplete family history from her mother. This is a similar experience for people within a diaspora who settle to live in the United States.

  The book begins with Kiku going with her mother to visit San Francisco where her grandmother used to live, prior to the internment camp period for the Japanese Americans during WW2. What happens next is fantasy as Kiku time travels and basically spends an unknown period in the past at the time when her grandmother was at the internment camp with her parents. The book goes on and ends with parallels about the Japanese American WW2 camps with Trump presidency’s detention camps at the southern United States border.

  Though this book is short, there are bittersweet moments, because with history there is always the issue of sadness and a feeling of "what if." I wondered what happened to characters beyond the one character that Kiku “befriended” as with the instances for where there were Japanese in the book, there were no translations, so unless you read Japanese, readers are left to wonder what was it that was written in the book?   

  Reviewed by Linda Y on Jan 26, 2021

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  Displacement by Hughes, Kiku,

  ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

  This review contains spoilers! Click to reveal...

  This is a graphic novel about the Japanese American internment camp experience. Kiku Hughes draws with facts from her own history, as a Yonsei. Displacement as a book contains a mix of fact, fiction, fantasy and history. Kiku never met her grandmother who died before she was born, she writes though with incomplete family history from her mother. This is a similar experience for people within a diaspora who settle to live in the United States.

  The book begins with Kiku going with her mother to visit San Francisco where her grandmother used to live, prior to the internment camp period for the Japanese Americans during WW2. What happens next is fantasy as Kiku time travels and basically spends an unknown period in the past at the time when her grandmother was at the internment camp with her parents. The book goes on and ends with parallels about the Japanese American WW2 camps with Trump presidency’s detention camps at the southern United States border.

  Though this book is short, there are bittersweet moments, because with history there is always the issue of sadness and a feeling of "what if." I wondered what happened to characters beyond the one character that Kiku “befriended” as with the instances for where there were Japanese in the book, there were no translations, so unless you read Japanese, readers are left to wonder what was it that was written in the book?   

  Reviewed by Linda Y on Jan 26, 2021

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  The Bodyguard

  ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

  Drama. Action. Romance. Suspense. Love/Hate Relationships. Thriller. Awesome Soundtrack.

  Kevin Costner's acting has always been unmatched. He is a very good actor. Whitney Houston's acting, singing, and charming persona is astonishing as well. This was very nice for Whitney's debut acting role. I believe it  was easy for her because for the most part she was exactly playing herself. If you are a fan of Whitney Houston's music you will love this film.  The characters are memorable.  I would watch this again and enjoy it.

  Reviewed by Joyce L on Jan 26, 2021

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  Drawing the vote : the illustrated guide to the… by Jenkins, Tommy,

  ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

  What a timely nonfiction book that is avaliable in print and in digital. I read the digital version of this book, but this book is avalaible as a paper title. Drawing the Vote has content can be pretty dry, but is a book with a heartful and important message. Voting is an undeniable right as an American citizen, though there are points of American history that would mean either the repression or uplifitng for a right to vote. Graphic novels is in my opinion an easier to stomach book that just reading text. This book listed out in linear historical order American voting milestones, what is electoral collage, when and who were able to vote, just as when specific laws were enacted to supress voting and various historical periods in the United States history. This book goes up to Election of 2016. 

  Reviewed by Linda Y on Jan 26, 2021

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  Unhinged

  ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

  This movie kept me jumping. talk about  bad day and road rage. I will never beep at the person infront of me again. from start to finish this movie kept me jumping

  Reviewed by Donna P on Jan 26, 2021

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  Homefront

  ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

  A former DEA moves to a quiet town with his daughter. Someone recognizes who he is and lets the man who's son was killed know. He then sends people to try and kill him. Its an action packed movie that I enjoyed watching. Would definetely watch again.

   

  Reviewed by Donna P on Jan 26, 2021

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