Sandra Neil Wallace. Knopf, $16.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-375-86754-5
Former ESPN newscaster and Little Joe author Wallace presents an unsettling yet inspiring novel, based on true events, about a racially mixed high-school football team’s last season. Set in the autumn of 1950 in the grim mining town of Hatley, Ariz.,
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Sandra Neil Wallace, illus. by Bryan Collier. S&S/Wiseman, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4814-4387-6
This rich portrait of an innovative and determined artist begins with Ernie Barnes as a child in the segregated South. Despite a desire to pursue art, football was Barnes’s ticket to college, where he visited museums for the first time and was...
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Sandra Neil Wallace, illus. by Bryan Collier. S&S/Wiseman, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-5344-5103-2
Born in Chicago, civil rights activist Diane Nash (b. 1938) grows up in a diverse, integrated community until moving to Tennessee for college, where she first encounters segregation: “Two signs for bathrooms: WHITE and COLORED.” Determined to “change
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Sandra Neil Wallace and Rich Wallace, illus. by Charly Palmer. Calkins Creek, $18.99 (44p) ISBN 978-1-62979-452-5
Donating a portion of their proceeds to institutions in Selma, Ala., the married coauthors present a vivid nonfiction narrative that illuminates the January 1965 Teachers’ March to Selma’s Dallas County Courthouse. By highlighting and interweaving...
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Sandra Neil Wallace and Rich Wallace. Calkins Creek, $17.95 (192p) ISBN 978-1-62979-428-0
Drawing heavily on the journals of the crew of the U.S.S. Jeannette, the Wallaces (Blood Brother) recount in riveting prose the ship’s ill-fated two-year voyage (1879–1881) in search of warm waters then thought to surround the North Pole. Lt. Cmdr....
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