Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Award Nominee

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Nero blaming Christians for the burning of Rome

kids learn that a "very kind lady" helped to bring them into their loving family

he and Noor must ask themselves what friendship is worth—and what it takes to defeat the monsters in their pasts and the ones in their midst

Pauli Murray: The Life of a Pioneering Feminist and Civil Rights Activist Teen & Young Adult Manga Louisiana Young Readers' Choice AwardPauli Murray was a trailblazer who spent her life fighting for civil rights and women's rights. Writer, lawyer, activist, priest, Pauli was a champion for justice. Her extraordinary life is immortalized in this riveting biography told in verse. "Pauli Murray was brilliant, outspoken, and committed to achieving dignity and equality for all under the law. Rising from poverty, Murray challenged pervasive race and sex discrimination and helped launch the