Black Girl You Are Atlas Eleven-year-old Delphine is like a

Eleven-year-old Delphine is like a mother to her two younger sisters

drawn by capital's insatiable need for labor power—and cannon fodder for its wars

face ghosts from her past

this volume rethinks African and world history from an Afrocentric perspective

• Stories of family

Black Girl You Are Atlas Eleven-year-old Delphine is like aA Coretta Scott King Honor Book Winner of the Walter Dean Myers Award A thoughtful celebration of Black girlhood by award winning author and poet Rene Watson. In this semi autobiographical collection of poems, Rene Watson writes about her experience growing up as a young Black girl at the intersections of race, class, and gender. Using a variety of poetic forms, from haiku to free verse, Watson shares recollections of her childhood in Portland, tender