Nebraska Library Commission

Find your voice this ! Happy readers! Explore all the African American stories available on Libraries, like “Something to Say” by Lisa Moore Ramée. Recommended for kids in grades 3-7, this chapter book explores the complex social rules of middle school, overcoming fears, and finding friendship. Find this story, and other African American fiction and nonfiction on Nebraska OverDrive Libraries. You can find “Something to Say” as both an audiobook and eBook, along with Ramée’s other works, “A Good Kind of Trouble,” and “The Everybody Experiment.” Read more about it on the ➡️ https://buff.ly/GHMOVdv

“Reminiscent in writing style to works by Lauren Myracle and Jason Reynolds, this novel [shows] Shayla’s typical middle school problems, then switches to the very specific problems she faces as a young black girl in America…[For] middle grade readers who aren’t yet ready for Thomas’s The Hate U Give.” ― School Library Journal (starred review)

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