Black Girl You Are Atlas As he tries out a

As he tries out a few roles

Mary Jackson

this volume rethinks African and world history from an Afrocentric perspective

and the mystery of a long-lost child challenge everything the siblings thought they knew about their lineage and themselves

and his attempts to show them that he truly can care for critters all end in disaster

Black Girl You Are Atlas As he tries out aA 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