Black Girl You Are Atlas

"This robust, wonderful poetry collection both recounts Renée Watson’s own life and connects and weaves together the lives of other Black girls and women. Packed full of brilliant pieces, there’s humor mixed with some deeply serious writing, evoking For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf. Best of all? It’s a quick read – because you don’t need a book to be a tome to be touched by it. (For ages 12 to 17)"