Family Book Club

This week's Family Book Club pick is Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos by Monica Brown. This bright, educational picture book biography explores Frida Kahlo's childhood and focuses specifically on the pets she had and how they influenced her art.

This week's Family Book Club pick is Going Down Home with Daddy by Kelly Starling Lyons. This sweet, family-oriented picture book celebrates heritage and the way we individually and collectively recognize where we've come from.

This week's Family Book Club pick is Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron. This smart, fast-paced YA title takes place in a land where Cinderella has been dead for 200 years—but her warped legacy enables men to keep women and girls subservient—and follows one girl's attempt to change everything.

This week's Family Book Club pick is Song for a Whale by Lynne Kelly. This adventurous, informational middle grade book follows Iris, a deaf girl trying to figure out a place in the world where she belongs, and her connection to Blue 55, a whale who also has trouble communicating.

This week's Family Book Club pick is A Map Into the World by Kao Kalia Yang. This smart, sweet picture book follows Paj Ntaub as she navigates a host of changes: moving, siblings being born, and the death of one of her neighbors.

This week's Family Book Club pick is All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson. This young adult memoir-manifesto is an exploration of Johnson's youth, teen, and college years as he as he navigated his sexuality, bigotry, family, racism, friendship, death, and belonging.

This week's Family Book Club book is Stargazing by author-illustrator Jen Wang. This sweet middle grade graphic novel focuses on friendship and the resiliency it takes to work through obstacles big and small.

This week's Family Book Club pick is SLAY by Brittney Morris. This wonderfully imaginative and poignant YA title celebrates community while recognizing the inherent risks marginalized people encounter when creating or finding their own.

This week's Family Book Club pick is The Rabbit Listened by Cori Doerrfeld. This beautifully illustrated picture book explores what friendship looks like in the face of sorrow and has to support—and be supported by—those you love.

School is officially out for the summer! But with COVID still significantly affecting our country, we recognize this summer may look a little different—a lot more at-home time with the family, for one. That's why we've started this new series, as a way to offer more activities for your family.