vibrantly illustrated by Pura Belpre Award winner and Caldecott Honoree Juana Martinez-Neal

ethnography and anthropology

and wild hope

I watch her be in multiple musics

and perceptive

The Beet Queen young adult vibrantly illustrated by Pura BelpreOn a spring morning in 1932, young Karl and Mary Adare arrive by boxcar in Argus, North Dakota. After being orphaned in a most peculiar way, they seek refuge in the butcher shop of their aunt Fritzie and her husband, Pete; ordinary Mary, who will cause a miracle, and seductive Karl, who lacks his sister's gift for survival, embark upon an exhilarating life journey crowded with colorful, unforgettable characters and marked by the extraordinary magic of