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• Review: “The Wind Rises” (Alma, Book 1) by Timothée de Fombelle September 23, 2022
  A West African girl thrust from her family’s private Eden confronts awful truths on the high seas in Timothée de Fombelle’s “The Wind Rises.”
• Review: “The Door of No Return” by Kwame Alexander September 23, 2022
  In his new novel-in-verse, “The Door of No Return,” the Newbery Medal-winning author works hard to show that white people weren’t the only ones perpetuating an unjust system.
• Review: “Holler of the Fireflies” by David Barclay Moore September 20, 2022
  In “Hummingbird” and “Holler of the Fireflies,” a girl with brittle bones and a boy plagued by racist tensions seek healing in the hills.