A 2024 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People Award Winner

a kaleidoscopic middle-grade adventure that mixes the anxieties

It includes nine weeks of accessible

Sebastian’s secret weapon (and best friend) is the brilliant dressmaker Frances―one of only two people who know the truth: sometimes this boy wears dresses

Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness Teen & Young Adult European Historical Fiction A 2024 Notable Social Studies**The 2022 Lammy Award Winner in Transgender Nonfiction** Exploring the intersections of Blackness, gender, fatness, health, and the violence of policing. To live in a body both fat and Black is to exist at the margins of a society that creates the conditions for anti fatness as anti Blackness. Hyper policed by state and society, passed over for housing and jobs, and derided and misdiagnosed by medical professionals, fat Black people in the United