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November 4, 2026

Sundown Girls, by L. S. Stratton, features a Black teen trying to adjust to her long-lost family after the mother she knew was arrested for kidnapping. They're vacationing in what was once a sundown town in rural Virginia, and she smells something awful in the air.

Happy Reading!

—Sondra Eklund



Chain of Ideas
by Ibram X. Kendi

Why Did Jesus Have to Die?
by Adam Hamilton



Melodies of the Weary Blues
by Langston Hughes
art by 23 remarkable artists
compiled by Shamar Knight-Justice

Words to My Life's Song
by Ashley Bryan
with photographs by Bill Meguinness