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Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/SecondStoryPress Pin us on Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/secondstorypres Follow us on Instagram: @_secondstory Fall2018Catalogue_insidefront.indd 1 2018-04-03 3:29 PM SECOND STORY PRESS fall 2018 new releases | 1 All About Anne ANNE FRANK HOUSE ILLUSTRATED BY HUCK SCARRY Anne Frank’s life story, told in words and pictures from the Anne Frank House museum Anne Frank’s life story is told by answering the most frequently asked questions posed by children and young people visiting the Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam. Text, detailed photographs, and beautiful illustrations combine to give the fullest picture of Anne’s life, her diary, and the Secret Annex. Full of information about World War II, the Holocaust, and Anne’s time in hiding, the book provides both an overview of the history as well as intimate insights into the life of the young woman whose story and diary continues to capture the imaginations of young people around the world. ANNE FRANK STICHTING organization was founded in 1957 in collaboration with Otto Frank, Anne’s father, and is dedicated to the preservation of the building at Prinsengracht 263 in Amsterdam, where the Frank family and others were in hiding during WWII. Since 1960, the building, known as the Anne Frank House, has been open ISBN 978-1-77260-060-5 to the public as a museum, bringing Anne’s words, as made famous by her diary, to the attention of people worldwide, raising awareness of the dangers of anti-Semitism, racism SEPTEMBER and discrimination, and the importance of freedom, equal Children’s Nonfiction Ages 9–13 rights, and democracy. $24.95 ISBN: 978-1-77260-060-5 Full color, hardcover HUCK SCARRY is the son of children's authors Patricia KEYWORDS: PREJUDICE, WWII, THE HOLOCAUST, 72 pages, 8.25”x11.25” Scarry and Richard Scarry. He worked on the spot in the WRITING, ANNE FRANK Anne Frank House during several visits there, to get the HOUSE MUSEUM, illustrations as historically correct as possible, while making AMSTERDAM them engaging for young readers. 2 | SECOND STORY PRESS fall 2018 new releases Black Women Who Black Women Dared Who Dared NAOMI M. MOYER Naomi M. Moyer Inspiring and indomitable Black women whose stories need to be told Artist Naomi M. Moyer presents powerful portraits accompanied by concise, inspirational biographies of ten Black women and women’s collectives from Canadian and American history, ranging from 1793 to the present. Included are leaders and groundbreakers who were anti-slavery activists, business women, organizers who promoted healthcare, and educators who taught literacy and scholarship in Black neighborhoods. The stories and powerful illustrations will engage readers of all ages and genders. Celebrate these remarkable women, some of whom ISBN 978-1-77260-071-1 you may be hearing about for the first time, who had and continue to have profound impacts on their communities. SEPTEMBER Profiled are: Chloe Cooley, Sherona Hall, The Coloured Children’s Nonfiction Ages 9–13 Women's Club, The Hour a Day Study Club, Rosa Pryor, $18.95 ISBN: 978-1-77260-071-1 Mary Bibb, The Black Cross Nurses, Sylvia Estes Stark, Jackie KEYWORDS: BLACK Full color, hardcover with jacket Shane, and Blockorama. HISTORY, AFRICAN 24 pages, 8.5"x11" DIASPORA, RACISM, SLAVERY, CIVIL NAOMI M. MOYER is a self-taught, multidisciplinary artist RIGHTS, COMMUNITY and writer. As a Black woman, Naomi is forever interested ORGANIZATION, in African diasporic histories and how they connect to Black EDUCATION, FEMINISM, LGBTQ RIGHTS identity. Naomi is a new mama and lives with her family in Toronto. YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE: Ten Cents a Pound NHUNG N. TRAN-DAVIES ILLUSTRATED BY JOSÉE BISAILLON A mother’s sacrifice for the sake of her daughter’s future. “This beautifully written story set in an unnamed Asian country has a poetic quality that matches its tender tone. The young girl dreams of going to school but she is afraid to leave her mother, her village, and all that is familiar.…A touching lesson about parental love, sacrifice, the importance of education, and overcoming obstacles to create a better future.” —School Library Journal ISBN 978-1-77260-056-8 Children’s Fiction Ages 5–9 $18.95 ISBN: 978-1-77260-056-8 Full color, hardcover with jacket 24 pages, 8.5"x11" SECOND STORY PRESS fall 2018 new releases | 3 Bright Shining Moment DEB LOUGHEAD A twelve-year-old comes to appreciate life’s brief bright, shining moments It is 1942, and Aline is 12 years old. Aline loves her family, but she is also ashamed of them. She hides her face when her father drives her to school in his horse-drawn wagon instead of a motorcar. She won’t tell the girls in her class that her mother raises chickens in their yard, or that they’ve taken in boarders to make money. Embarrased that her mother can’t spare money for a charity drive at school, Aline steals ten cents from her mother's purse. As she seeks to make amends, she comes to reevaluate everything she held to be true, including her relationship with her sworn enemy, Jeanine, whose situation, she learns, is much worse than her own. ISBN 978-1-77260-068-1 DEB LOUGHEAD is the author of more than 40 books for children and young adults, ranging from poetry and plays to picture books and novels, many of them in translation. This time she has drawn on SEPTEMBER Children’s Fiction Ages 9–13 her mother’s childhood tales to weave a warm and engaging novel. $10.95 Deb has conducted writing workshops and held readings for children ISBN: 978-1-77260-068-1 and adults at schools, festivals, and conferences across the country. KEYWORDS: POVERTY, Paperback, 172 pages, 5.25 x 7.5 She lives with her husband Dan in Toronto. Her three adult sons have 1940S, FRIENDSHIP, FAMILY, BULLYING, long flown the coop. CHARITY, CATHOLICISM YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE: The Promise PNINA BAT ZVI AND MARGIE WOLFE ILLUSTRATED BY ISABELLE CARDINAL The true story of two brave sisters whose promise to “always, stay together” helped them survive Auschwitz. ê“Harrowing, moving, and filled with questions that cannot be answered but must be asked.” —Kirkus STARRED REVIEW “Sisters Rachel and Toby haven’t seen their parents since Nazi soldiers broke their family apart, but they cherish and supportISBN 978-1-77260-058-2each other as they endure life in Auschwitz....An unusual, powerful look at the horrors of life in the camps and the courage and resilience of those who survived.” —Publishers Weekly Children’s Nonfiction Ages 9+ $18.95 ISBN: 978-1-77260-058-2 Full color, hardcover with jacket 32 pages, 8.5"x11" 4 | SECOND STORY PRESS fall 2018 new releases A Cage Without Bars ANNE DUBLIN Joseph, a Jewish slave boy, survives with a combination of luck, quick wits, and the hope of freedom In 1492, Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain signed the Edict of Expulsion, giving all Jews three months to leave the country. Joseph Belifonte, a 12-year-old boy, escapes to Lisbon, Portugal with his parents and younger sister, Gracia. After only eight months of safety, Joseph and Gracia, along with hundreds of other Jewish children, are kidnapped and put on a ship that takes them to the island of São Tomé, off the coast of West Africa. Now slaves, the children are forcibly baptized and made to work on a sugarcane plantation. While Gracia tries to accept their circumstances, Joseph holds to the hope that, one day, ISBN 978-1-77260-059-9 he will be free and find his parents again. SEPTEMBER ANNE DUBLIN is an award-winning writer of biographies Children’s Fiction Ages 10–14 and historical novels for young people. She is the author of $10.95 the middle grade novels The Orphan Rescue and 44 Hours ISBN: 978-1-77260-069-8 or Strike!, which received the Canadian Jewish Literary KEYWORDS: SLAVERY, Paperback, 142 pages, 5.25"x7.5” JEWS, SPAIN & Award for Youth in 2016.