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Kin: Rooted in Hope

Carole Boston Weatherford

Illustrator: Jeffery Boston Weatherford

Ages: 14+

Published: 2023

Publisher: Atheneum BFYR/Simon & Schuster

ISBN: 978-1-6659-1362-1

Keywords: Slavery, Kin, Genealogy

Through free verse, the author seeks and shares the story of her family tree, which has been shaped by enslavement and liberation. Expressive black-and-white scratchwork illustrations.