An American Story Game In this unique memoir

In this unique memoir

Cowritten with Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Honor recipient Derrick Barnes and illustrated with bold and muscular artwork from Emmy Award–winning illustrator Dawud Anyabwile

Full of clever wordplay and bright visual gags--and toilet humor to spare--these twenty-three rhyming poems make for an ideal read-aloud experience

Endorsed by the Frida Kahlo Museum in Mexico City

and the first player to win three rounds wins the game

An American Story Game In this unique memoirBy Kwame Alexander Illustrated by Dare Coulter #1 New York Times Bestselling and award winning author of The Undefeated, Kwame Alexander, pens a powerful picture book that tells the story of American slavery through the voice of a teacher struggling to help her students understand its harrowing history. From the fireside tales in an African village, through the unspeakable passage across the Atlantic, to the backbreaking work in the fields of the