![]() ![]() ![]() How about the one where you get your period one day at school while wearing white pants and it feels like EVERYONE notices? Sasha’s worried enough about making friends at her new school and now this? Fortunately, her misfortune leads to meeting three amazing girls. What’s your worst nightmare? There are so many to pick and choose between. I didn’t know I needed a graphic novel for kids on period parity. Sometimes you don’t know what you’ve been missing until it’s arrived. And it exhibits a kind of bravery, both on the part of the creators and, to a certain extent, the publisher, that is rather rare. Since that time we’ve had book stunners like A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramée, and other titles in the vein of The Hate U Give. Then came the election of 2016, the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, the Women’s March, and any number of other factors that suddenly made those old “protest novels” look downright quaint. For a long time that was pretty much as far as a book for children would go when it came to civil disobedience. Examples that come immediately to mind vary from the fluffy ( Frindle and The Homework Strike) to slightly more serious topics ( The Day They Came to Arrest the Book). Which is to say, a novel in which the kids in the book decide to take a stand against an injustice. The nice thing about children’s literature is that it often replicates, on a smaller scale, themes and topics that you’ve find in more mature fare. ![]()
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