The Protest (Confetti Kids #10)

(Dive Into Reading)
By Samantha Thornhill, Shirley Ng-Benitez
Paperback: $10.95

In this new book in the popular Confetti Kids series, Lily and her friends organize a protest in order to save their neighborhood public garden from being demolished.

Front cover for La protesta (Confetti Kids #10) by Samantha Thornhill and Shirley Ng-Benitez
This book is also available in Spanish
La protesta (Confetti Kids #10)
By Samantha Thornhill, Shirley Ng-Benitez

Description

Five friends from diverse backgrounds learn how to navigate common childhood challenges, new experiences, and the world around them in the realistic and kid-friendly Confetti Kids early chapter books. In this story, Lily learns that the community garden is going to be torn down and made into a parking lot. Lily and her friends are upset by the news. They decide to form a protest and call on friends, neighbors, and reporters to participate and save their beloved garden. On the morning of the protest, Lily is unsure if their efforts will work. After all, she and her friends are just kids, and no one is going to listen to them… Or can they prove that kids can make a difference too?

About the Creators

Samantha Thornhill

Samantha Thornhill is a poet, educator, and children's book author. Her work has been published in over two dozen literary journals and anthologies. She has taught poetry to acting students at the Juilliard School and creative writing seminars at the Bronx Academy of Letters. She also facilitates workshops for the Dialogue Arts Project, which ventures into professional settings and uses creative writing as a tool to navigate uncomfortable discussions about social identity. A dual citizen of the United States and Trinidad & Tobago, Samantha has since retired from her active life in New York City to her native island of Trinidad. Learn more about her at samanthaspeaks.com.

Shirley Ng-Benitez

Shirley Ng-Benitez is a Bay Area children’s book author/illustrator who has illustrated 35+ children’s books, and has a background in Graphic Design (GabbyandCo.com), and hand-lettering (American Greetings, Inc.). She works and experiments in traditional mediums including watercolor, gouache, pen&ink, oils, and painted & cut-paper collage. Her work draws from a deep wish to add more compassion and connection in the world through her art and stories. She founded @AWEtober on Instagram, an annual art auction fundraiser since ’20, whose efforts have raised tens of thousands for various organizations supporting victims of the California wildfires, and efforts in coral reef restoration around the globe. She lives with her family and two black cats, and is thrilled to be working on her debut picture book, DOWN, THROUGH, UP by Quill Tree Books, Winter ‘25. Please visit shirleyngbenitez.com for more.

Awards

  • Best Children's Books of the Year 2022

    Bank Street College of Education

  • CCBC Choices

    Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)

  • Best Books

    Kirkus Reviews

Reviews

  • * "Another solid addition to an excellent, diverse early-reader series."

    - Kirkus Reviews
  • "In this new installment in the upstanding Confetti Kids beginning-reader series, short sentences and simple dialogue accompany watercolor illustrations that reflect Lily's diverse neighborhood and the power kids can have in their communities."

    - Booklist

Hardcover

  • ISBN 9781643792088
  • Publication Date Jan 12, 2021
  • Trim Size 9 × 6 in
  • Weight 0.5625 lbs
  • Page Count 32
  • Word Count 485
  • Paperback

  • ISBN 9781643792095
  • Publication Date Jan 12, 2021
  • Trim Size 9 × 6 in
  • Weight 0.1875 lbs
  • Page Count 32
  • Interests

  • Audience Children
  • BISAC Category 1 JUV / Readers / Intermediate
  • BISAC Category 2 JUV / Diversity & Multicultural
  • BISAC Category 3 JUV / Social Themes / Friendship
  • Themes African / African American / Black, Childhood Experiences and Memories, Early Readers, Fiction, Human Impact On Environment / Environmental Sustainability, Leadership, Overcoming Obstacles, Protest, Realistic Fiction, Social Justice & Activism
  • Reading Levels

  • Age Range Ages 4 - 7
  • Grade Range Grades K - 2
  • Guided Reading J
  • DRA 18
  • Lexile Level 510
  • Bebop Reading Early Fluent
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