HPL Kids

The Tulsa Race Massacre is one of the worst incidents of racial violence in our nation's histor, a 16-hour massacre in 1921 that destroyed thousands of homes and businesses and left as many as 300 people dead.  Yet news of what happened was largely suppressed, and no official investigation occurred for seventy-five years.  Celebrated author Carole Boston Weatherford sensitively introduces young readers to this tragedy and concludes with a call for a better future.  

September 11, 2021 will mark the 20th anniversary of 9/11, and I can't believe it.  I still have distinct memories of that day, watching the events unfold on my apartment TV and talking about everything with my fellow University of Montevallo students.  Today's young people don't have those memories, but they do have a way to immerse themselves in that tragic historic event.  Alan Gratz's new novel, Ground Zero, delivers a pulse-pounding and unforgettable take on history and hope, revenge and fear, and the stunning links between the past and present.