Black Girl You Are Atlas and his attempts to show

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

Eleven-year-old Delphine is like a mother to her two younger sisters

this classic presents historical

• Stories of family

drawn by capital's insatiable need for labor power—and cannon fodder for its wars

Black Girl You Are Atlas and his attempts to showA 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