One activist’s story shows how indigenous communities can fight to protect their sacred lands-and win.

This browsable book explores the wind’s role in our planet and its history, from carrying pollen to shaping sand dunes to pushing record-breaking ships across the ocean.

To save their father’s life, a brother and sister must journey across a land full of magical beings from Colombian folklore and find the most powerful and dangerous of them all–the Madremonte.

Sixteen year old Mar, a transmasculine Latinx pirate hiding magical abilities, must learn to use their magia to save their papá and newfound pirate familia from losing their souls to el Diablo.

Mahani Teave grew up on Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, one of the most remote islands in the world, where moai statues stand and music is everywhere. When she began taking lessons on the island’s only piano, she proved to be a great talent. She left Rapa Nui when she was just nine to continue her music education, wishing she didn’t have to leave such a beautiful place to pursue her dreams. She became an internationally acclaimed classical pianist, playing around the world for all kinds of audiences. But her island home kept calling her back. Years later, she returned to Rapa Nui to stay, and with a new dream: to save its environment and culture. She helped create a music and arts school, so that children there could learn music in ways that kept the island’s unique traditions alive. Mahani also saw the island’s struggles with sustainability issues and pollution from tourism and ocean plastics, so the school was built using of thousands of tires, bottles, and cans in its walls, and incorporates rain barrels, solar panels, and a food garden. Mahani and her team have created an inspiring place that celebrates the land of Rapa Nui and its people.

A lush and endearing picture book about the special days a child spends with her Sinhalese grandfather, her Seeya, despite their language barrier.

Namina Forna Could Be The Toni Morrison Of Ya Fantasy.-refinery 29 The Start Of A Bold And Immersive West African-inspired, Feminist Fantasy Series For Fans Of Children Of Blood And Bone And Black Panther. In This World, Girls Are Outcasts By Blood And Warriors By Choice. Sixteen-year-old Deka Lives In Fear And Anticipation Of The Blood Ceremony That Will Determine Whether She Will Become A Member Of Her Village. Already Different From Everyone Else Because Of Her Unnatural Intuition, Deka Prays For Red Blood So She Can Finally Feel Like She Belongs. But On The Day Of The Ceremony, Her Blood Runs Gold, The Color Of Impurity-and Deka Knows She Will Face A Consequence Worse Than Death. Then A Mysterious Woman Comes To Her With A Choice: Stay In The Village And Submit To Her Fate, Or Leave To Fight For The Emperor In An Army Of Girls Just Like Her. They Are Called Alaki-near-immortals With Rare Gifts. And They Are The Only Ones Who Can Stop The Empire’s Greatest Threat. Knowing The Dangers That Lie Ahead Yet Yearning For Acceptance, Deka Decides To Leave The Only Life She’s Ever Known. But As She Journeys To The Capital To Train For The Biggest Battle Of Her Life, She Will Discover That The Great Walled City Holds Many Surprises. Nothing And No One Are Quite What They Seem To Be-not Even Deka Herself.