DISCUSSION GUIDES

Summary: Black Appetite. White Food. invites educators to explore the nuanced manifestations of racial inequity as it exists within and beyond the classroom.

Summary: A “delightful classic village mystery” (Kirkus) about a spirited young pigeon fancier who hopes to get involved with England’s WWII effort—but soon finds herself tied to a covert intelligence organization…and at the heart of a baffling murder.

Summary: Rear Window meets Get Out in this gripping thriller from a critically acclaimed and New York Times Notable author, in which the gentrification of a Brooklyn neighborhood takes on a sinister new meaning…

Summary: Social Poetics documents the imaginative militancy and emergent solidarities of a new, insurgent working class poetry community rising up across the globe.

Summary: Based on the gripping true story of Irena Sendler, an unlikely Polish resistance fighter who helped save thousands of Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto during World War II, bestselling author James D. Shipman’s Irena's War is a heart-pounding novel of courage in action, helmed by an extraordinary and unforgettable protagonist.

Summary: We Need to Talk: A Memoir About Wealth tells an honest, thought-provoking, personal story and explores the impact of wealth on identity, relationships, and sense of place in the world. At twenty-five, Jennifer joined Microsoft, met her husband, and together they became extra-lucky beneficiaries of the dot-com boom. But wealth surprised her. Having a lot of money doesn’t look or feel like what Hollywood sells us.

Summary: Meet Majella O’Neill, a heroine like no other. Growing up in Northern Ireland just after the Troubles, Majella lives a quiet life caring for her alcoholic mother and working in the local chip shop, but when her predictable existence is upended, she realizes there might just be whole big world outside her small town. Don’t miss this unforgettable debut from the author of the hot new novel Factory Girls.

Summary: “Why is this town called Mother’s Rest?” That’s all Reacher wants to know. But no one will tell him. It’s a tiny place hidden in a thousand square miles of wheat fields, with a railroad stop, and sullen and watchful people, and a worried woman named Michelle Chang, who mistakes him for someone else: her missing partner in a private investigation she thinks must have started small and then turned lethal.

Summary: Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy by Dr. Gholnecsar (Gholdy) Muhammad unpacks the critical need for honoring students' identities to help them grow academically and personally during a time when educators nationwide are searching for ways to improve literacy achievement.