The Call of Antarctica: Exploring and Protecting Earth's Coldest Continent

The Call of Antarctica: Exploring and Protecting Earth's Coldest ContinentAntarctica is the coldest, windiest, highest, driest, and most remote part of the world. Its the worlds largest polar dessert. Antarctica is a true wilderness. Author Leilani Raashida Henry, daughter of George W. Gibbs, Jr., the first person of African descent to go to Antarctica, recounts her fathers expedition while educating readers on the incredible geography, biodiversity, and history of the continent. Using diary entries from Gibbs' expedition,

vibrant communities live in harmony with both its strange ecosystem and each other—until the day imperialist forces arrive

unblinking and raw

The four African writers whose addresses to the conference are included in this volume—Assia Djebar

New Kid is a selection of the Schomburg Center's Black Liberation Reading List

with natural hair

Before long her BFF returns

Though a disability stunted his growth and left him with a hunched back

and on the dangers of life and love in paradise

—Elizabeth Acevedo

Being a little kid isn’t always fun and games

until her friend forgets to tell Hazel she’s sold the house

Aya is a lighthearted story about life in the Ivory Coast during the 1970s