Wings Juvenile Fiction Lifestyles - City & Town Life Cooking & Food African American & Black and Renée Watson

and Renée Watson

He knows his hero

Little Melba and Her Big Trombone is a fitting tribute to a trailblazing musician and a great unsung hero of jazz

you are a brave soldier

Wings Juvenile Fiction Lifestyles - City & Town Life Cooking & Food African American & Black and Renée WatsonAre you brave enough to be your true self? Ikarus Jackson is, but it isn't always easy. The people in his neigborhood point at his wings. The kids at school laugh. The teachers call him a distraction. One girl identifies with Ikarus, but she is too shy to speak up for herself, let alone for him. Maybe I should have said something to those mean kids, she thinks, when their taunts send him drifting into the sky. Inspired by Ikarus's own courage, she