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One-track Mind

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12 In Focus

Leaders of Tomorrow

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Team Landon

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Faces

By Lindsey Capritta

One-track Mind Local speaker talks about Ohio’s role in the Underground Railroad

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Blankenship has spent decades preserving the history of Ohio’s Underground Railroad.

from the border states and ran into Ohio to get assistance.”

Blankenship will speak for the historical society’s Understanding Colum-

Understanding Columbus’ Underground Railroad Who: Leslie Blankenship, Friends of Freedom Society co-founder When: 7-8 p.m. on Tuesday, April 5 Where: Municipal Service Center, 3600 Tremont Rd. 8

bus’ Underground Railroad event on April 5. The event follows a February historical society discussion with author Ann Hagedorn about her book Beyond the River, which documents Underground Railroad stories from Ripley, a small village that sits on the Ohio side of the border with Kentucky.

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large part of early United States history is entwined with the history of slavery. As a Union state that resisted this history, Ohio played a key role in helping enslaved people escape from the South.

Here in the Tri-Village area, the Upper Arlington Historical Society seeks to educate residents on the vital role central Ohio played along the Underground Railroad through the organization’s History Speaks series. Leslie Blankenship, who has dedicated decades to sharing that history, will give an hour-long presentation on April 5.

Blankenship co-founded the Friends of Freedom Society in 1996, an organization that works to preserve historic locations of the Underground Railroad across Ohio and worked as the group’s central regional coordinator.

“Ohio was probably one of the most active states on the Underground Railroad,” Blankenship says, “because it bordered Canada and Kentucky and Virginia – today it’s West Virginia. Most runaways and freedom seekers came

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Kelton House with its historical marker

as well as activists and stations in Clintonville and Union and Morrow counties.

Blankenship discovered her interest in history at a young age, and at one point planned to be a history teacher. Instead, she went back to school to study science and worked in marketing com-

munications at Chemical Abstracts Service for 37 years. She never shed her love of history, though, and particularly a love for Ohio history.

“My dad was a good storyteller,” Blankenship says. “He lived through the Depression, he became a pilot in World War

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II, so he always had good stories about life in Ohio. He would talk about that and that really interested me.”

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second half of the 19th century.

Blankenship participated in Kelton House’s Underground Railroad Advisory Committee and Education Committee and helped research the museum’s Underground Railroad story.

Blankenship frequently participates in events to raise awareness of Ohio history related to the Underground Railroad and women’s suffrage. She often portrays influential Columbus suffragist Belle Coit Kelton, one of the first women to attend The Ohio State University, in historical reenactments.

In understanding Columbus’ Underground Railroad, she plans to discuss some of the known participants in the Underground Railroad as well as important historical Blankenship with photos of Belle Coit Kelton and her mother, Elizabeth Greer Coit. events such as the infamous Lucy Depp fugitive case that played “I wanted people to know that the Un- you could lose your life. I wanted people out in central Ohio. Her intention is to derground Railroad is not just a story about to know that. I want people to think, ‘Do highlight the hard work these people did happy little freedoms stories,” Blankenship you think you could do this?’ People like during a defining moment in American says. “It’s not. It was very dangerous. If you to think they could, but it was jeopardizing got caught you could be sent to prison, your livelihood and your life.” history.

Since the Underground Railroad was so secretive, a lot of what we know about it is speculative. Blankenship is quick to credit her sources, particularly the late 19th century work of Wilbur Siebert, an OSU professor who documented Ohioans’ stories from the Underground Railroad.

“How do we know the stories that we know today? How do we know who in Columbus operated on the Underground Railroad? We know what came from Wilbur Siebert because he did research,” Blankenship says. “He was trying to tap into people’s memory. He sent his students home over Thanksgiving break and went, ‘See if you can find any of your relatives that know anything.’”

Blankenship says that Siebert’s students came back with stories. That indicated to him that, now that the American Civil War had ended, people were willing to discuss some of what had taken place. While Siebert’s work is important, Blankenship places similar value on the participants who shared their stories.

“We know (these stories) because someone took the time to ask questions,” she says. “Someone also took the time to answer them.”

Lindsey Capritta is a contributing writer. Feedback welcome at feedback@cityscenemediagroup.com.

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In Focus

By Juliana Colant

Leaders of Tomorrow

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School organizations encourage student advocacy

BARC members Maria Ionno, Nina Brown, Anna Bullock and Olivia Schweinhagen discuss how to inform others about the need to keep honesty in education and to oppose House bills 322 and 327.

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The AAPI Association met with Nidhi Satiani to discuss her role as a school board member.

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hroughout the Tri-Village community, schools aren’t just teaching students theoretical concepts in order to check off a box – they’re providing young people with the knowledge and experience necessary to become leaders and active community members. In recent years, Tri-Village students have stepped up with strong interests in clubs and or-

ganizations promoting advocacy and civic engagement.

Inspired by the killing of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement near the beginning of summer 2020, staff and students at Grandview Heights High School came together to form the Bobcat Anti-Racism Collective (BARC).

“The purpose of the group is to give our primarily white student body a more diverse view of the world and, in particular, the Black experience in America,” says Kevin McCarthy, a GHHS English teacher and co-adviser of BARC. “The group’s purpose is to try and introduce students to those perspectives that they might not have access to.”

Monthly general meetings invite students to explore topics of race through articles and discussions.

BARC also hosts a movie series that explores issues of diversity or race or are directed or written by people of color. In the future, the collective hopes to launch a speaker series. BARC activism events involve writing letters to elected officials and making phone calls about Ohio House bills related to education.

“This group that started just from reading articles and having small group discussions has grown into this organization that is student-led,” says Bethany Black, a GHHS English teacher

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BARC members Gwen Quinby and Ali Hamm call officials to oppose Ohio House bills 322 and 327.

“This group that started just from reading articles and having small group discussions has grown into this organization that is student-led, and they’re actually doing things to affect change.” and co-advisor of BARC, “and they’re actually doing things to affect change.”

Black says some student members’ activism has included testifying in opposition of House Bills 322 and 327, which aim to limit public schools from teaching “divisive topics” such as those dealing with race, sex, slavery and bias, and pre14

senting at the local school board meeting on the importance of BARC’s work.

At Upper Arlington High School, German teacher Tricia Fellinger formed Ambassadors of Change after a 2016 district initiative to train all staff in cultural competency. Inspired by some of the district training lessons, the student organi-

zation encourages students to be inclusive leaders.

Throughout the first semester of the year, Fellinger lays the foundation for students with workshops on inclusion, understanding identity, recognizing bias and being an upstander. In the second semester, students drive the programming more.

In the past, Ambassadors of Change students have lead inclusion workshops for eighth-graders. Local professional storytellers have also mentored students on how to tell their personal stories in a way that can affect change in their community. “(A student’s) voice is important, they’re our future,” Fellinger says. “I think it’s important for them to take a more active role in their education. And that is not just in the classroom, but what happens in the hallways, what happens after March/April 2022 • www.trivillagemagazine.com

school. I think it’s important for them to develop those leadership skills right now, to become advocates for themselves and for each other.”

Another UAHS group, the Asian American and Pacific Islander Association, saw students do just that. After organizing an AAPI Heritage Month celebration, students created the organization to continue celebrating that culture and advocating for Asian American and Pacific Islander voices.

“I wanted to create a community for anyone who’s interested in API history or API events around the community,” says Krish Mawalkar, senior and AAPI Association student director. “We did have a lot of groups focused on diversity more broadly, but not many groups focused on, for example, API events or things relating to the API community.”

On Instagram, the AAPI Association posts information about historical moments and upcoming events. It has also hosted interviews with influential leaders from the AAPI community, such as Nidhi Satiani, a local school board member.

The association’s fundraising committee supports local organizations such as the Asian American Community Services and

helped promote a fundraiser selling dalgona candy inspired by the Netflix series Squid Game.

Another GHHS program called Civic Education and Leadership Academy teaches students about democratic principles and civic engagement. The nonpartisan group is run by the WORTH Foundation, a local nonprofit, and the BARC advisors helped petition for it to come to GHHS. Students meet once a week over lunch to learn about creating change in their community.

“They learn about how to change local policy, how to have a conversation with people who have very different views from you, and how you have to sort of navigate listening to those students and those people instead of shutting them down and just writing them off as a bad person,” Black says.

Students interested in joining organizations can find more info at www. ghschools.org and www.uaschools.org.

Juliana Colant is a contributing writer.

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Team Landon

Family finds community support for son with rare genetic disorder

By Cameron Carr

Finding Answers It wasn’t until Landon was 9 months old that his condition began to come in to view. He was diagnosed with an out of place hip, but even after surgery he wasn’t Only 20 people worldwide are known to have the same TBCD disorder as Landon.

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andon McChesney has a smile that’s larger than life. His sandy brown cowlick and chocolatey eyes frame a grin that loves to open wide in delight. Though he’s seemingly carefree, the 5-year-old suffers from a rare genetic disorder.

When Landon’s dad, Michael, held up a poster with Landon’s picture and the words “help my son” in the background of ESPN’s College GameDay broadcast before The Ohio State University Buckeyes faced the University of Michigan Wolverines, 600 some strangers rallied to support Landon with more than $20,000 in donations in mere hours.

His mom, Jaren WoodlandMcChesney, compares him to the most popular kid in school.

“He just spreads joy wherever he goes,” she says. “There’s just something about him that you’re really drawn to.”

Landon’s condition is caused by a mutation of a tubulin folding cofactor D gene known as TBCD. He can’t stand on his own and has extremely limited speech abilities. Still, Landon’s receptive language skills far exceed expectations of him.

The initial prognosis for Landon wasn’t optimistic for improvements in his condition. With the support of his family and community though, Landon has proven to be capable of much more.

“We were given absolute worst-case scenario,” Woodland-McChesney says.

“He’s breaking down those barriers.”

crawling or meeting milestones typical for his age.

Landon’s case continued to confound specialists.

“We got a lot of kind of closed doors in our face saying, ‘We don’t know what this is. He’s never going to walk, he’s never going to talk,’” Woodland-McChesney says.

For the family, that wasn’t good enough.

“At first it was a hard pill to swallow,” Woodland-McChesney says. “I felt like we were in this dark place. But my husband and I just kind of banded together and decided we weren’t going to accept defeat. In a way it’s good to not fit into a box of diagnosis, because then you’re limited.”

Eventually, Landon’s condition was traced to the TBCD mutation. Both of his parents carry the gene mutation, but its effects are recessive in isolation.

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the brain and cell development, Woodland-McChesney says, which contributes to Landon’s global development delays.

With hard work by Landon and a supportive family, though, much progress has been made.

A robotic walking device, courtesy of Landon’s grandparents, allows him to practice walking while bearing weight in the correct posture, rather than hunching or dragging his feet. Using an assisted communication device similar to a tablet computer, Landon can string together sentences.

Even when he’s not actively working on progressing his abilities, Landon’s family is quick to support him however they can. Woodland-McChesney says her brothers, Jimmy and Jason Woodland, go out of their way for any request. When she proposed an idea for a Spider-Man Halloween costume, Landon had an adaptive wheelchair decked out with lights and a spiderweb backdrop the next day.

Community support, whether from strangers watching football or staff and students at Wickliffe Progressive Elementary School, is just as important, she says.

Support in Numbers The extreme rarity of Landon’s condition makes treatment even more challenging. The family has worked to raise awareness with the hope that it might also reach

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“(The effort is) going to cutting edge medical research that could not only change Landon’s life but kids’ lives who have this disorder,” WoodlandMcChesney says. “Hopefully we can apply this to other disorders.”

Whether due to new research, optimism or sheer force of will, Landon has continued to excel. Even small progress signifies to Woodland-McChesney that there’s potential for increased communication between Landon’s brain and body.

Standing independently, a huge milestone for him, may be close.

That’s all cause for celebration, but Woodland-McChesney says Landon’s fifth

birthday was a particularly big victory, as many children with TBCD don’t live that long. The birthday party included everything from a pony to a magician to celebrate Landon’s continued success.

“Now we’re just determined do to keep that going,” Woodland-McChesney says. “He’s beating the odds, quite frankly.”

Find more information about Landon’s cause at www.landonacure.org.

Cameron Carr is an editor at CityScene Media Group. Feedback welcome at ccarr@cityscenemediagroup.com.

So Much More Than A Physician Visit Patient Education A robotic walking device helps Landon practice bearing weight with the correct posture.

other families whose children have TBCD disorders.

In the few years since Landon’s diagnosis, the number of cases has increased significantly, but still only totals 20 worldwide.

“The more samples we have to compare with Landon’s the better,” Woodland-McChesney says. “We have strength in numbers.”

The family started a nonprofit, Landon a Cure, to help support research for Landon and other children with rare genetic disorders.

Connecting with others has allowed the family to share treatment options and ideas.

Even now, Landon’s case is being considered for an experimental treatment that would attempt to replace his gene mutation. The money raised through the College GameDay attention went toward the $50,000 cost of research with Rarebase, a public benefit biotech company.

The theory is that finding treatments for Landon can help others with TBCD as well as people with different genetic disorders.

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Student Spotlight

By Megan Roth

Inspiring the Next Generation

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UAHS senior finds enthusiasm for public service

Straub and fellow junior directors at UACA’s Fourth of July Celebration.

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he Upper Arlington Civic Association and its golden-jacketed directors are well-known throughout Upper Arlington for events such as the Golden Apple Awards and Golden Bear Scare. But behind those volunteers is a team of junior directors working to become the next generation of leaders.

The Junior Director Community Service and Scholarship Program selects six to 12 Upper Arlington highschoolers to serve from the end of their junior year through May of their senior year. The junior directors participate in all UACA events and are awarded a $1,000 scholarship.

Serving as a junior director since May 2021, Straub has seen the impact UACA events have on the community, bringing together people of all ages. As a junior director, she’s also peered behind the curtain to see firsthand the time and effort required to organize events.

“Growing up, I would always go to the events,” she says, “but once you’re volunteering and putting in work for it, you really understand how much of a time commitment it is and how much people care about the events and the community.”

For the Fourth of July event, Straub says junior directors have a bigger behind the scenes role than she ever imagined.

Both directors and junior directors are responsible for checking people in, making sure everything is running smoothly on stage, rolling tables in and out, and much more.

“You definitely get your hands dirty,” she says. “But that’s what public service is about.”

Even without the junior director program, Straub keeps a busy schedule. She’s

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Daley Straub, a senior at Upper Arlington High School and current junior director, knew she wanted to get involved with the UACA early on. Not only are her parents UACA volunteers, she also has family friends who were past directors and even knows former junior directors.

Straub says witnessing their dedication to the work inspired her.

“I saw (UACA volunteers’) passion for their community and how giving and generous they were,” she says. “No one volunteers for the UACA to make themselves look good. They volunteer because they genuinely do care about the community. I saw that and knew I wanted to be a part of it.”

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a captain of the UAHS girls tennis team and participates in the school’s Student Innovation Team. Straub plans to attend college to pursue an economics and public policy degree, and hopes to build a career that combines these two interests.

Straub’s work as a junior director has inspired her to consider a career in public service or government in the future. In addition to working with UACA, she’s also participated in the Yes to a Community Center campaign, during which she canvassed more than 600 houses and discovered a passion for community building, and served as a grant reader at the Women’s Fund of Central Ohio.

“Even though it’s a lot of work, and sometimes during an eight hour shift you don’t want to be there,” she says, “at the end of the day, seeing how the community is engaged with each other, it’s really all worth it.”

Megan Roth is a senior editorial assistant. Feedback welcome at feedback@cityscenemediagroup.com.

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Living

By Claire Miller

Corridor’s Climb

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Lane Avenue, UA development offers new condo living options

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ith the rapid growth and development occurring along Upper Arlington’s Lane Avenue corridor, the city set out to develop a framework and vision for the area going forward. The Lane Avenue Corridor Framework Plan includes a variety of planning and traffic studies as well as community and stakeholder input and engagement.

The framework, approved in September 2020, aims to guide the development of the area over the next five to 10 years. The area is expected to be primarily mixed-use and already has a number of developments in progress including the Arlington Gateway, Community Center, Golden Bear Center, Kingsdale Apartment Building and Kingsdale Senior Renderings of the under-construction Arlington Gateway project set to be completed by fall 2023.

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“Lane Avenue is a mature, developed, units, the building will host retail and resArlington Gateway highly successful main corridor with a lot taurant tenants on the ground floor and The Arlington Gateway project, set of retail and some offices and hotels, lots 138,000 square feet of office space on the for completion in fall 2023, was a natu- of restaurants and shops,” he says. upper floors. ral choice for developer Continental Real Like much of the Lane Avenue deThe Ohio State University’s construcEstate Companies, says founding partner velopment, Arlington Gateway will be tion and development near Arlington Frank Kass. mixed-use. In addition to 225 apartment Gateway is an asset for the project, as Kass March/April 2022 • www.trivillagemagazine.com

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the second floor and three floors of condominiums to round out the project at Riverside Drive and Fishinger Road.

“Just an exciting time to be in Upper Arlington, a lot of really great things happening in all areas of the city,” says Justin Milam, a senior planning officer for the City of Upper Arlington. “Permit wise, we had our second highest year ever last year and we’re not seeing really any signs of slowdown at this point.”

Claire Miller is an editor at CityScene Media Group. Feedback welcome at cmiller@cityscenemediagroup.com.

Like much of the Lane Avenue development, Arlington Gateway will include retail, office and residential space.

says that university’s presence contributes to a strong and thriving community.

Kingsdale Mixed-Use Project The Kingsdale Mixed-Use Project, also a Continental Real Estate development, includes a seven-story apartment building for older adults with 142 assisted and independent living units. On the ground floor, facing Tremont Road, the building will accommodate a 6,000-square-foot restaurant with outdoor dining.

Another seven-story building will have five floors of one- and two-bedroom apartments and a two-floor parking garage. Up against the garage will be eight two-story townhouses facing Northwest Boulevard.

The final development plan was approved in March 2021 with the condition, among others, that a future third building include 50,000 square feet of dedicated medical or professional office space, equal to two floors of the expected seven-story building. The other five floors will be dedicated to the Upper Arlington Community Center, which is still in the detailed design process, according to its website.

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Golden Bear Center After several years of planning and some back and forth with the building and zoning commission, the Golden Bear Center will begin construction this spring.

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On the Table

By Kate Anderson

Fish Fry-days

Photo courtesy of Andy Wang

Fish fry popularity grows during Lent

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ish fry dinners are a spring staple as many participating in Lent abstain from eating meat on Fridays. The tradition has roots in 19th-century Catholic immigrants that settled in Midwestern states near the Great Lakes. To supplement the missing protein from their Friday dinners, they opted for fish.

Bars and pubs are also partially responsible for the popularity of fish fries.

During Prohibition era, pubs turned to fried fish to make up for lost alcohol sales.

Fish fries continue today, particularly around Lent, which takes place from March 2-April 14 this year. As Lent is not 26

only a period of fasting but a period of giving, many parishes use the dinner gatherings as a way to bring the community together and raise money for the church or another cause.

That’s true for St. Andrew Parish, where a fish fry tradition began in 1997.

“Eight very involved mothers at St. Andrew School decided to organize the fish fry dinners in order to raise money for our new church and parish hall, which were under construction at the time,” says Jen Wenzke, St. Andrew Parish secretary.

“The success of the early fish fry dinners was unexpected. The crowd’s excitement

and friendliness on these evenings provided a community building atmosphere.”

St. Andrew’s Parish has kept the tradition going since this successful first dinner took place.

More than just a Catholic tradition, fried fish is an easy and crowd-pleasing meal to cook up with friends or family. If you’re looking to dine in this season, try this simple yet delicious family recipe.

Kate Anderson is an editorial assistant.

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RECIPE Nana’s Fried Fish Courtesy of Joan Curran and Karen Anderson INGREDIENTS (Serves four) • 12 perch fillets • 2 eggs • ½ cup flour • 1½ cup Italian bread crumbs • Salt • Pepper • Garlic powder • ½-1 cup olive oil DIRECTIONS • Have ready three shallow bowls. In the first bowl add the flour. In the second bowl add the Italian bread crumbs and a pinch of salt, pepper and garlic powder. In the third bowl add the eggs and mix with a fork until the yolk is completely mixed in.

• Next, add the olive oil to a stainless steel or cast-iron skillet. Let the oil heat over medium heat for about 10 minutes. While the oil is heating, dry the perch fillets.

• Once the oil is heated, take a fillet of perch and place it in the flour bowl and cover the fillet completely with flour.

• Dip the fillet in the egg bowl, then place the fillet in the bread crumb mixture. Make sure the fillet is covered completely with the mixture. Remove the fillet and place in the hot oil. Repeat with each fillet.

• Cook each fillet for about three minutes on each side, or until lightly browned. Change oil between each batch of fillets if needed.

• Place cooked fillets on a plate covered with paper towels to cool. Enjoy!

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2670 Canterbury Rd. 4 beds 4 baths $1,100,000 Sold on 1/7/22

1500 McCoy Rd. 5 beds 5 baths $1,490,000 Sold on 1/7/22

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May 21, 2022 Run or walk in this family-friendly 5k and afterward celebrate attending the Founder’s Day Parade and the festivities that follow. Visit our website to learn more: roserun5k.com

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By Chelsea Weissman, Grandview Heights Public Library Children’s Librarian Kids and Teens: Kids

Baby Dream/ Soñando con Bebe

by Sunny Scribens (ages 0-2)

Recent studies have shown that speaking, reading and singing to children in more than one language is beneficial for brain development. This sweet bilingual board book is a great tool to help caregivers with this. It’s written in both English and Spanish with accompanying black and white photographs of families of different ethnicities.

The refrain, “When it’s time for us to rest” accompanies pages of different activities caregivers do to prepare babies for sleep such as cuddling, reading a book, singing a song and tucking them in before turning off the lights. It is a soothing book for both the reader and the child.

Your Name Is a Song

by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow (ages 3-6)

This story follows a girl who is frustrated because no one at school can say her name correctly.

Her mom says the name is a song and that some names come from the heart. Her mother shares examples of names and how to pronounce them. By the end of the story, the girl is convinced and has her whole class singing songs from their names. The teacher and classmates learn a valuable lesson and hearing them sing her name with correct pronunciation is music to her ears. A glossary of names is included at the end of the story with pronunciations and an important note to always listen carefully to how a person says their own name. To learn the name of the main character in this book, you’ll have to check it out!

This Is How We Do It: One Day in the Lives of Seven Kids from Around the World

by Matt Lamothe (grades K-3)

This nonfiction book explores the lives of seven real children from different countries: Italy, Iran, Uganda, India, Peru, Japan and Russia. The reader is first introduced to each child’s name and what country they live in. We then learn facts like who they live with, what they wear to

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school, what they eat for lunch, how they spell their name and what they do for fun in the evenings. Photographs of the children and their families are on the last page, followed by a glossary of words the reader might be unfamiliar with, as well as an author’s note on how he was able to write the book. This book is a great introduction to thinking about how people live differently and similarly to each other all over the world. It illustrates that we all do a lot of the same activities but the details of how we do them can be very different.

The Kingdom of Back

by Marie Lu (grades 6 and up) This middle-grade novel is a magical realism story about the worldfamous Mozart family. Before realizing young Wolfgang’s talents, the father focuses most of his energy on Wolfgang’s sister, Nannerl, and thinks she will be famous and make the Mozart family rich. Both children are very imaginative and extraordinary pianists, but as they get older, attention shifts to Wolfgang. One day, a magical boy from another world called the Kingdom of Back appears to the children and makes a deal with Nannerl, who fears being forgotten. Half of this story focuses on the Mozarts’ true lives and the other half on the Kingdom of Back. I enjoyed the historical information at the end of the book about Maria Anna “Nannerl” – she and her brother really did make up a land called the Kingdom of Back.

Tales of the Peculiar

by Ransom Riggs (grades 6 and up)

This fun book is a companion to the Riggs’ Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. Each story is part history, part fairy tale and part moral lesson for young peculiars. Footnotes in each chapter add to its charm by adding to the realism. One tale, “The ForkTongued Princess,” follows a peculiar who is mistreated by princes and even her father but eventually finds self-acceptance with her only true friend, her handmaiden. Another tale, called “The Locust,” tells the story of an immigrant whose son has a heart so big he can’t help but fall in love easily and feel extreme compassion for animals. Each tale in this book transports the reader to a world of believable fantasy, just as the original series does.

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