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Kin: Rooted in Hope (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781665913621)
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Carole Boston Weatherford
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xA Coretta Scott King Honor Book An "imaginative and moving" (The Horn Book, starred review) portrait of a Black family tree shaped by enslavement and freedom, rendered in searing poems by acclaimed author Carole Boston Weatherford and stunning art by her son Jeffery Boston Weatherford. I call their names:
Abram Alice Amey Arianna Antiqua
I call their names:
Isaac Jake James Jenny Jim
Every last one, property of the Lloyds,
the state's preeminent enslavers.
Every last one, with a mind of their own
and a story that ain't yet been told.
Till now. Carole and Jeffery Boston Weatherford's ancestors are among the founders of Maryland. Their family history there extends more than three hundred years, but as with the genealogical searches of many African Americans with roots in slavery, their family tree can only be traced back five generations before going dark. And so from scraps of history, Carole and Jeffery have conjured the voices of their kin, creating an often painful but ultimately empowering story of who their people were in a breathtaking book that is at once deeply personal yet all too universal. Carole's poems capture voices ranging from her ancestors to Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman to the plantation house and land itself that connects them all, and Jeffery's evocative illustrations help carry the story from the first mention of a forebear listed as property in a 1781 ledger to he and his mother's homegoing trip to Africa in 2016. Shaped by loss, erasure, and ultimate reclamation, this is the story of not only Carole and Jeffery's family, but of countless other Black families in America.
Author: Carole Boston Weatherford
ISBN-10: 1665913622
ISBN-13: 9781665913621
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Language: English
Published: 09/19/2023
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.36lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.40w x 0.90d
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7
Point Value: 3
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 520908 / Kin: Rooted in Hope
Award: Coretta Scott King Award - Honor Book
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 07/01/2023 pg. 69
Publishers Weekly 07/31/2023
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2023
Horn Book Magazine 09/01/2023 pg. 88
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 09/01/2023 - Book Of Special Distinction
School Library Journal 09/15/2023 pg. 1
Shelf Awareness 11/21/2023
Abram Alice Amey Arianna Antiqua
I call their names:
Isaac Jake James Jenny Jim
Every last one, property of the Lloyds,
the state's preeminent enslavers.
Every last one, with a mind of their own
and a story that ain't yet been told.
Till now. Carole and Jeffery Boston Weatherford's ancestors are among the founders of Maryland. Their family history there extends more than three hundred years, but as with the genealogical searches of many African Americans with roots in slavery, their family tree can only be traced back five generations before going dark. And so from scraps of history, Carole and Jeffery have conjured the voices of their kin, creating an often painful but ultimately empowering story of who their people were in a breathtaking book that is at once deeply personal yet all too universal. Carole's poems capture voices ranging from her ancestors to Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman to the plantation house and land itself that connects them all, and Jeffery's evocative illustrations help carry the story from the first mention of a forebear listed as property in a 1781 ledger to he and his mother's homegoing trip to Africa in 2016. Shaped by loss, erasure, and ultimate reclamation, this is the story of not only Carole and Jeffery's family, but of countless other Black families in America.
Author: Carole Boston Weatherford
ISBN-10: 1665913622
ISBN-13: 9781665913621
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Language: English
Published: 09/19/2023
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.36lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.40w x 0.90d
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7
Point Value: 3
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 520908 / Kin: Rooted in Hope
Award: Coretta Scott King Award - Honor Book
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 07/01/2023 pg. 69
Publishers Weekly 07/31/2023
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2023
Horn Book Magazine 09/01/2023 pg. 88
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 09/01/2023 - Book Of Special Distinction
School Library Journal 09/15/2023 pg. 1
Shelf Awareness 11/21/2023
By Carole Boston Weatherford
xCarole Boston Weatherford has written many award-winning books for children, including Kin, illustrated by her son Jeffery and a Coretta Scott King Author Honor recipient; Box, which won a Newbery Honor; Unspeakable, which won the Coretta Scott King Award, a Caldecott Honor, and was a finalist for the National Book Award; Respect: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, winner of the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award; ALA Notable Children's Book You Can Fly; and Caldecott Honor winners Freedom in Congo Square; Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement; and Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom. Carole lives in North Carolina. Visit her at CBWeatherford.com. Jeffery Boston Weatherford is an award-winning children's book illustrator and a performance poet. He has lectured, performed, and led art and writing workshops in the US, the Middle East, and West Africa. Jeffery was a Romare Bearden Scholar at Howard University, where he earned an MFA in painting and studied under members of the Black Arts Movement collective AfriCobra. A North Carolina native and resident, Jeffery has exhibited his art in North Carolina, Georgia, Maryland, and Washington, DC. Visit him at CBWeatherford.com.
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