New Picture Books
John Philip Duck by Patricia Polacco.
Synopsis: "During the Depression, a young Memphis boy trains his pet duck to do tricks in the fountain of a grand hotel and ends up becoming the Duck Master of the Peabody Hotel."
Mississippi morning by Ruth Vander Zee.
Synopsis: "Amidst the economic depression and the racial tension of the 1930s, a boy discovers a horrible secret of his father's involvement in the Ku Klux Klan."
The rattlesnake who went to school by Craig Strete.
Synopsis: "On his first day of school, Crowboy pretends he is a rattlesnake, but then he meets a girl in his class who wants to be a rattlesnake too."
This is me and where I am by Joanne Fitzgerald.