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|  | The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis, LeVar Burton
Nine-year-old Kenny narrates this story about his middle-class, African-American family and their 1963 trip from Flint, Michigan to Birmingham, Alabama. The trip's purpose is two-fold--to visit their grandmother, and to get Kenny's older brother away from the rough crowd he has been running with. Sadly, racism rears its ugly head as the family travels through the South, eventually culminating in the bombing of Kenny's grandmother's church while his younger sister and many others are inside. AUTHOR: Christopher Paul Curtis, LeVar Burton
PUBLISHER: Random House Children's Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction 
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 | Trying to Save Piggy Sneed by John Irving
A collection of memoirs, short fiction, and essays by the bestselling author of THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP and A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY. AUTHOR: John Irving
PUBLISHER: Ballantine Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | My Black Me by Arnold Adoff
A collection of poems that celebrates the black experience. Selections include Listen Children by Lucille Clifton, Poem for Flora by Nikki Giovanni, Sam's World by Sam Cornish, A Grandfather Poem by William J. Harris, Ali by Lloyd Corbin, Jr. (Djangatolum), and Dream Variation by Langston Hughes. AUTHOR: Arnold Adoff
PUBLISHER: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Formal Feeling Comes by Annie Finch
Poems by women celebrating the new formalism, including a statement from each poet. AUTHOR: Annie Finch
PUBLISHER: Story Line Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Lost Garden by Helen Humphreys
A gardener named Gwen Davis is a solitary Londoner and, during World War II, she goes to Devon to plant potatoes as a member of the Land Army. Gwen is solitary, friendless, and obsessed with Virginia Woolf (to whom she writes unsent letters), but she eventually finds a kindred soul in Jane, widow of a fighter pilot and fan of TO THE LIGHTHOUSE. And she finds a man who may be a lover in the battalion's Captain. AUTHOR: Helen Humphreys
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Flap Your Wings by Philip D. Eastman
Description not available.When Mr. and Mrs. Bird find an egg in their nest in the tree, they decide to tend to it, yet when it hatches and they discover that it's a baby alligator, they realize that he can't live in the nest and so must think of a safe way to get him back to his real home in the pond. AUTHOR: Philip D. Eastman
PUBLISHER: Random House, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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