The Invincible Summer of Juniper Jones Format:Paperback Publication Date: February 22

Publication Date: February 22

Hurricane Summer is a powerful coming of age story that deals with colorism

every poignant verse can be found within the pages of this sure-to-be-treasured volume—from her reflections on African American life and hardship in the compilation Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ’fore I Diiie (“Though there’s one thing that I cry for / I believe enough to die for / That is every man’s responsibility to man”) to her revolutionary celebrations of womanhood in the poem “Still I Rise” (“Out of the huts of history’s shame / I rise / Up from a past that’s rooted in pain / I rise”) to her “On the Pulse of Morning” tribute at President William Jefferson Clinton’s inauguration (“Lift up your eyes upon / The day breaking for you

even after his controversial opinions got him fired from several on-air jobs

Their trip on this former tea-smuggling train has been curated beyond their wildest imaginations

The Invincible Summer of Juniper Jones Format:Paperback Publication Date: February 22Its the summer of 1955. For Ethan Harper, a biracial kid raised mostly by his white father, race has always been a distant conversation. When hes sent to spend the summer with his aunt and uncle in small town Alabama, his blackness is suddenly front and center, and no one is shy about making it known hes not welcome there. Enter Juniper Jones. The towns resident oddball and free spirit, shes everything the townspeople arentopen, kind, and accepting.