Celebremos Juneteenth!

A young girl, who has just moved to her parents' hometown, realizes that she has come home after the African American emancipation celebration of Juneteenth.

It's a fine day In June. Cassandra's family has just moved from the city back to her parents' hometown in Texas. Cassie likes her new house, and her new school is okay, but Texas doesn't quite feel like home yet.

What Cassie doesn't know is that her family has a surprise for her - a Texas tradition. As she helps prepare red velvet cake, fried chicken, and piles of other dishes, she wonders what makes June 19th so important. It isn't until Cassie and her family arrive downtown that she discovers what the commotion is about. And, in the process, she realizes that she and her family have indeed come home.

Translated from Juneteenth Jamboree, ¡Celebremos Juneteenth! bring the African American emancipation celebration of Juneteenth to life for children. Readers of all ages will delight in this declaration of freedom and homecoming.

Carole Boston Weatherford is a poet and journalist originally from Baltimore, Maryland. Her twenty-plus books for children have earned several honors including the Carter G. Woodson Award, IRA/CBC Teachers' Choices, NCSS Notable Children's Trade Books in Social Studies, and Bank Street College of Education Best Books of the Year. Weatherford lives in High Point, North Carolina, with her husband and their two children.

Yvonne Buchanan's illustrations have been featured in many magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times and the Village Voice, as well as the children's video production of Follow the Drinking Gourd: The Story of the Underground Railroad.(narration and music by Taj Mahal). She lives in Brooklyn, New York.