A Little Bitty Man and Other Poems for the Very Young

Lucky Breaks

The Life and Times of Benny Alvarez

The Smartest Kid in the Universe

Amina's Song: Amina's Voice

Where Will I Live?

The Way to Bea

Daddy, Tell Me a Story

It’s funny to think about identity. I wonder how much of us we inherit, and how much we create.

Connor’s grandmother leaves his dad a letter when she dies, and the letter’s confession shakes their tight-knit Italian American family: The man who raised Dad is not his birth father.

But the only clues to this birth father’s identity are a class ring and a pair of pilot’s wings. And so Connor takes it upon himself to investigate—a pursuit that becomes even more pressing when Dad is hospitalized after a stroke. What Connor discovers will lead him and his father to a new, richer understanding of race, identity, and each other.

In this eloquent first novel in verse by renowned poet Marilyn Nelson, she tells the story of a boy embracing his newfound genealogy and his surprising connection to American history.

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A Little Bitty Man and Other Poems for the Very Young

Pamela Espeland, Marilyn Nelson, Halfdan Rasmussen, 2011

Lucky Breaks

Susan Patron, Matt Phelan, 2009

The Life and Times of Benny Alvarez

Peter Johnson, 2014

The Smartest Kid in the Universe

Chris Grabenstein, 2020

Amina's Song: Amina's Voice

Hena Khan, 2021

Where Will I Live?

Rosemary Mccarney, 2017

The Way to Bea

Kat Yeh, 2017

Daddy, Tell Me a Story

Ela Smietanka, Kathleen Long Bostrom, 2024