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• Junior Library Guild Selection

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""Meticulously researched and beautifully illustrated in full-color drawings . . . the story acknowledges the growing pains of pushing out of communities (Indigenous and other immigrant communities) by the Spanish colonial missions and later by Americans to make room for Western development . . . This deeply felt coverage of the inflection points for so many communities is a must-have for all libraries.""—starred, School Library Journal ""Fire-oriented metaphors that hint at the coming conflagration describe growing tensions, while Xu's thick-lined ink and digital media illustrations incorporate images of fire, smoke, and sparks.""—Publishers Weekly ""In this ruminative account of a lesser-known race riot that left 18 immigrants dead, Blackburne poses big, still cogent questions.""—Booklist ""Deftly brings to light a lesser-known horror in the context of America's history of racism against Chinese immigrants.""—Kirkus Reviews

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Livia Blackburne is a Chinese American writer who penned her first novel while researching the neuroscience of reading at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She now writes full-time and is the author of several books including Midnight Thief (An Indies Introduce New Voices selection) and Feather & Flame (in Disney's Queen's Council series), as well as the picture book I Dream of Popo, which received starred reviews from Publisher's Weekly and Kirkus. She is based in California. Nicole Xu is an artist who was born in Shanghai, grew up in Vancouver, Canada, and is now based in Portland, Oregon. She graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in illustration and has worked with numerous magazine and publishing clients. Her work often explores themes of loss, healing, and empathy. Her debut picture book, All of A Sudden and Forever, Help and Healing after the Oklahoma City Bombing, written by Chris Barton, received two starred reviews and was an Orbis Pictus Recommended Book.

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