Feb 27 2025 45 mins
The Mamas have consulted their star charts and found black authors rising! In celebration of black history month, Margie and Heather fangirl over three rollicking Middle Grade adventure books (for ages 8-12), one historical fiction and two fantasy novels that highlight the black experience while entertaining readers of all ages. Then Margie sets the Handmaids Tale aside to make room for another dystopian story that hits a little too close to home, The Parable of the Sower by the queen of sci-fi Octavia Butler.
Book Chat:
Kwame Crushes the Underworld by Craig Kofi Farmer
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Will’s Race for Home by Jewell Parker Rhodes
The Secret Library by Kekla Magoon