Hands Up!
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Imprint: Puffin Books
(Dec 15, 2020)
Fiction, Paperback, 32 pages
Publisher: Penguin Random House
ISBN: 9780593326640
Fiction, Paperback, 32 pages
Publisher: Penguin Random House
ISBN: 9780593326640
Description of Hands Up!
This triumphant picture book celebrates Black joy by reclaiming a charged phrase and showing readers how resistance can be part of their everyday lives. A young Black girl lifts her baby hands up to greet the sun, reaches her hands up for a book on a high shelf, and raises her hands up in praise at a church service. She stretches her hands up high like a plane’s wings and whizzes down a hill so fast on her bike with her hands way up. As she grows, she lives through everyday moments of joy, love, and sadness. And when she gets a little older, she joins together with her family and her community in a protest march, where they lift their hands up together in resistance and strength.
