Choose a Color, We'll Tell You What Book to Read <section><h2><h2><strong>Choose a Color, and We'll Tell You What Book to Read!</strong></h2></h2><p><p>Did you know that different colors are associated with a range of emotions and feelings? That’s why when we see certain colors they make us feel happy. Or why we tend to wear black when we feel sad and down. Books also similarly trigger our emotions. I know sometimes when I’m down, I’ll read a book that I know will make me cry. If you’re looking for the next read that’ll bring out a specific mood in you, look no further! All you have to do is pick a color and I’ll give you a book that will make you feel the emotions associated with it.</p></p></section><section><h2><h2><strong>Mirror Girls by Kelly McWilliams</strong></h2></h2><p><p><strong>Turquoise = healing, spirituality, and envy. Once you’re done with this story, the sisters won’t be the only ones ready to heal the things in their lives.</strong></p><p>A thrilling gothic horror novel about biracial twin sisters separated at birth, perfect for fans of Lovecraft Country and The Vanishing Half</p><p>As infants, twin sisters Charlie Yates and Magnolia Heathwood were secretly separated after the brutal lynching of their parents, who died for loving across the color line. Now, at the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement, Charlie is a young Black organizer in Harlem, while white-passing Magnolia is the heiress to a cotton plantation in rural Georgia.</p><p>Magnolia knows nothing of her racial heritage, but secrets are hard to keep in a town haunted by the ghosts of its slave-holding past. When Magnolia finally learns the truth, her reflection mysteriously disappears from mirrors—the sign of a terrible curse. Meanwhile, in Harlem, Charlie’s beloved grandmother falls ill. Her final wish is to be buried back home in Georgia—and, unbeknownst to Charlie, to see her long-lost granddaughter, Magnolia Heathwood, one last time. So Charlie travels into the Deep South, confronting the land of her worst nightmares—and Jim Crow segregation.</p><p>The sisters reunite as teenagers in the deeply haunted town of Eureka, Georgia, where ghosts linger centuries after their time and dangers lurk behind every mirror. They couldn’t be more different, but they will need each other to put the hauntings of the past to rest, to break the mirrors’ deadly curse—and to discover the meaning of sisterhood in a racially divided land.</p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong>Augusta Savage by Marilyn Nelson</strong></h2></h3><p><p><strong>Orange = Courage, confidence, and success. Reading Augusta’s story will have you ready to take on the world and carve out your own road to success.</strong></p><p><strong></strong>A powerful biography in poemsabout a trailblazing artist and a pillar of the Harlem Renaissance—with an afterword by the curator of the Art & Artifacts Division of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.</p><p>Augusta Savage was arguably the most influential American artist of the 1930s. A gifted sculptor, Savage was commissioned to create a portrait bust of W.E.B. Du Bois for the New York Public Library. She flourished during the Harlem Renaissance, and became a teacher to an entire generation of African American artists, including Jacob Lawrence, and would go on to be nationally recognized as one of the featured artists at the 1939 World’s Fair. She was the first-ever recorded Black gallerist. After being denied an artists’ fellowship abroad on the basis of race, Augusta Savage worked to advance equal rights in the arts. And yet popular history has forgotten her name. Deftly written and brimming with photographs of Savage’s stunning sculpture, this is an important portrait of an exceptional artist who, despite the limitations she faced, was compelled to forge a life through art and creativity.</p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong>Fence: Disarmed by Sarah Rees Brennan, Illustrated by Johanna the Mad</strong></h2></h3><p><p><strong>Red = love, passion, and strength. The Kings Row boys will ignite that passion in you, for all the things you love.</strong></p><p>The boys of Kings Row are off to a training camp in Europe! Surrounded impressive scenery and even more impressive European fencing teams, underdog Nicholas can’t help but feel out of place. With the help of a local legend, though, he and the rest of the team finds it within themselves to face superior fencers, ex-boyfriends, expulsion, and even Nicholas’s golden-boy, secret half-brother, the infamous Jesse Coste. Will Aiden and Harvard end up together, though? En garde!</p><p>The second installment of this enticing original YA novel series by Sarah Rees Brennan, rich with casual diversity and queer self-discovery, explores never-before-seen drama inspired by C.S. Pacat’s critically acclaimed Fence comic series.</p><p>Text and Illustration copyright: © 2021 BOOM! Studios</p><p>Fence(TM) and © 2021 C.S. Pacat</p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong>The Best Kind of Magic by Crystal Cestari</strong></h2></h3><p><p><strong>Yellow = happiness, warmth, and energy. This sweet book will perk you up and make you feel warm both inside and out.</strong></p><p>Amber Sand is not a witch. The Sand family magical gene somehow leapfrogged over her. But she did get one highly specific bewitching talent: she can see true love. As a matchmaker, Amber’s pretty far down the sorcery food chain (even birthday party magicians rank higher), but after five seconds of eye contact, she can envision anyone’s soul mate.</p><p>Amber works at her mother’s magic shop–Windy City Magic–in downtown Chicago, and she’s confident she’s seen every kind of happy ending there is: except for one–her own. (The Fates are tricky jerks that way.) So when Charlie Blitzman, the mayor’s son and most-desired boy in school, comes to her for help finding his father’s missing girlfriend, she’s distressed to find herself falling for him. Because while she can’t see her own match, she can see his–and it’s not Amber. How can she, an honest peddler of true love, pursue a boy she knows full well isn’t her match?</p></p></section><section><h3><h2><strong>The Winter Duke by Claire Eliza Bartlett</strong></h2></h3><p><p><strong>Purple = royalty, mystery and ambition. Go on a journey with Ekata that will leave you ready to bask in the glory of the spotlight and be treated like the royalty you are.</strong></p><p>When Ekata's brother is finally named heir, there will be nothing to keep her at home in Kylma Above with her murderous family. Not her books or science experiments, not her family's icy castle atop a frozen lake, not even the tantalizingly close Kylma Below, a mesmerizing underwater kingdom that provides her family with magic. But just as escape is within reach, her parents and twelve siblings fall under a strange sleeping sickness.</p><p>In the space of a single night, Ekata inherits the title of duke, her brother's warrior bride, and ever-encroaching challengers from without--and within--her own ministry. Nothing has prepared Ekata for diplomacy, for war, for love...or for a crown she has never wanted. If Kylma Above is to survive, Ekata must seize her family's power. And if Ekata is to survive, she must quickly decide how she will wield it.</p><p>Part Sleeping Beauty, part Anastasia, with a thrilling political mystery, The Winter Duke is a spellbinding story about choosing what's right in the face of danger.</p></p></section><section><h2><h2><strong>Choose a color!</strong></h2></h2></section> quizShanese MullinsMarch 21, 2022mirror girls, kelly mcwilliams, augusta savage, marilyn nelson, fence, sarah rees brennan, johanna the mad, crystal cestari, windy city magic, the winter duke, claire eliza bartlettComment Facebook0 Twitter LinkedIn0 Reddit Tumblr Pinterest0 0 Likes
