Magnolia Flower "Messy Roots is a laugh-out-loud

"Messy Roots is a laugh-out-loud

and used their intellect to change their own lives

Grace’s weekly attic—room dinner parties and window—brewed sun tea become a healing balm on all their lives

” —New York Times Book Review

Magnolia Flower "Messy Roots is a laugh-out-loudA Kirkus and Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2022! A Bank Street College of Education's Children's Book Committee's Best Children's Books of the Year pick! From beloved African American folklorist Zora Neale Hurston comes a moving adaptation by National Book Award winner and #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist and Antiracist Baby, Ibram X. Kendi. Magnolia Flower follows a young Afro Indigenous girl who longs for freedom and is