Hands Up! Juvenile Fiction Disability Sports & Recreation - Soccer Social Themes - Friendship providing a rich understanding of

providing a rich understanding of the ways in which Black educators have created counternarratives to challenge the anti-Black racism found in school textbooks and curricula

illustrator

Born a year after Wright’s death and raised in a wealthy San Diego neighborhood

where she would finally be able to do what she'd always dreamt of: being a missionary

Hands Up! Juvenile Fiction Disability Sports & Recreation - Soccer Social Themes - Friendship providing a rich understanding ofThis triumphant picture book recasts a charged phrase as part of a black girl's everyday life hands up for a hug, hands up in class, hands up for a high five before culminating in a moment of resistance at a protest march. A young black girl lifts her baby hands up to greet the sun, reaches her hands up for a book on a high shelf, and raises her hands up in praise at a church service. She stretches her hands up high like a plane's wings and whizzes