And Other Mistakes

And Other MistakesA Black teenage girl has something to prove in And Other Mistakes, a debut Young Adult coming of age novel by Erika Turner about first loves, broken friendships, family tension, and what it means to run toward your future instead of running from your past. Aaliyah's home life has never been great, but she thought she'd survive her last years of high school with at least her friendships and cross country stardom intact. That is, until junior year

Nobody will get hurtDawn and Reese Spencer just can’t get ahead

All of them achieved incredible things

his “lucid

When sober

Raised in a home where food was unstable and anger was the norm

With colorful illustrations and historically accurate text

After the murder of Emmett Till

Power to the People is the story of the controversial Black Panther Party

What happened next would trigger the largest manhunt in the city's history

It is taught throughout the world and has become our common creation story for nearly every culture

and Camp-Out is named one of Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best for 2023

a liberationtheology that assumes a need to work on behalf of the poor can seem out oftouch with a population experiencing huge Pentecostal and Charismatic growth