Joy Takes Root Cultural Heritage Fiction showcasing the evolution of her

showcasing the evolution of her distinctive style as an archivist and author

Eight-year-old Ava Murray wants to know why there’s a difference between the warm

traces an increasingly audacious commitment to exploring the unknowable

from the wage gap to biases and micro-aggressions

and here they pay it forward to empower readers with a reminder that perfect really isn't all that

Joy Takes Root Cultural Heritage Fiction showcasing the evolution of herIn her grandmother's garden, a young Black girl learns about mindfulness and herbal medicine in this soothing intergenerational story about our connection to nature. It's Joy's first summer in her grandmother's South Carolina gardena rite of passage. In the midst of okra, spinach, and strawberries, Grammy teaches Joy that plants are friends with many uses. Herbs, for example, can be turned into medicine. There in Grammy's abundant backyard, Joy learns