Collection:Raise the Future

Saigon falls. She ends up in Alabama. In verse.

READ – REFLECT → RESIST

The ring is missing. It might be in one of the tamales. They eat them all.

READ – REFLECT → RESIST

Every bird wants a touch of Blackbird's beautiful color.

READ – REFLECT → RESIST

Why does grandma keep her hair long? Because they made her cut it.

READ – REFLECT → RESIST

Dad has never done hair before. Zuri's hair doesn't care.

READ – REFLECT → RESIST

On a hill in Arizona, children built a real town out of nothing.

READ – REFLECT → RESIST

Neither this nor that. Neither finds where they belong.

READ – REFLECT → RESIST

Her name is too long. Until her father explains where it came from.

READ – REFLECT → RESIST

She was unkind to the new girl. The new girl stopped coming. Now what.

READ – REFLECT → RESIST

She says she can't draw. Her teacher says: just make a mark.

READ – REFLECT → RESIST

A spill. A tear. A hole. All of them become something better.

READ – REFLECT → RESIST

He has an enemy. Dad has a pie. There's a catch.

READ – REFLECT → RESIST

A seagull drops paint on his roof. He decides to go with it.

READ – REFLECT → RESIST

Fry bread is history. Fry bread is family. Fry bread is us.

READ – REFLECT → RESIST

An Iranian girl in America, missing home. The beach helps.

READ – REFLECT → RESIST

Iranian American in 1979. Her country is on the news. Not in a good way.

READ – REFLECT → RESIST

Half-Iranian, depressed, going to Iran. He finds himself there.

READ – REFLECT → RESIST

An Iranian family in California. Dad is an eternal optimist.

READ – REFLECT → RESIST

An alphabet book about Palestine. They tried to ban it.

READ – REFLECT → RESIST

A Māori girl. Ancient traditions. She's the one they've been waiting for.

READ – REFLECT → RESIST

A reservation kid goes to the white school. Everyone loses.

READ – REFLECT → RESIST

A girl tries to remember the island she left as a baby.

READ – REFLECT → RESIST

No parents, no rules, infinite strength.

READ – REFLECT → RESIST

A migrant childhood told with devastating simplicity.

READ – REFLECT → RESIST