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 LQ NAMED
BEST CHILDREN’S BOOK
PUBLISHER OF THE YEAR:
NORTH AMERICA

“All of us at Levine Querido are tremendously grateful to have

been honored with the Bologna Prize. For a young, indepen-
dent publisher to be recognized in this way is a great encour-
agement and validation of our determination to achieve the
highest standards of quality and inclusion. That the initial nom-
ination came from our esteemed fellow publishers around the
world makes it all that much more special.”
—Arthur A. Levine, President and Editor-in-Chief,
Levine Querido

“We’ve been delighted to be part of Levine Querido’s launch

into the world; getting their books into the hands of readers
who will love them. It’s wonderful that the Bologna Book Fair
has recognized this publisher for the shining light we’ve always
known them to be.”
—Tyrrell Mahoney, President, Chronicle Books

“We are so very proud of the fact that our sister publisher Levine
Querido was named the 2021 Best Children’s Publisher of the
Year for North America. It is a great joy to work together with
Arthur Levine and his team on building a new Children’s Book
Publishing House on the other side of the ocean with the same
high quality standards and—most important—with the same
love for making the best children’s books in the world. Congrat-
ulations to all Levine Querido authors, illustrators and staff.”
—Pauline Loerts, President, Querido, Netherlands
In memory of Shirley, Evelyn, and Joseph,
who enjoyed the best gefilte fish.

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A IS FOR BEE
By Ellen Heck

E llen Heck’s take on the quintessential

alphabet book is both simple and radical.
The word for Bee might start with a B in
English, but in many, many languages, it starts
with A: Anu in Igbo. Ari in Azerbaijani. Aamoo
in Ojibwe. Abelha in Portuguese.
Heck’s graphic scratchboard details and
hidden letterforms show us familiar animals in striking
compositions, while the languages that name the animals range far
and wide. On a single spread, readers will find words in Cherokee, Basque,
Thai, French, Finnish, and Chechen! Ellen was excited to incorporate words
from languages of people and Nations indigenous to North America, as well
as languages of people who live far from our shores.
A Is for Bee backmatter includes a list of all the languages in the book,
plus a map showing where they are most commonly spoken. A link will take
interested readers to hear a native speaker pronounce the words correctly.
A vibrant tribute to the glorious variety of language.

ELLEN HECK is a printmaker. For the past decade, through several

print projects, she has explored questions about identity—its creation,
variability, persistence and change. She studied philosophy at Brown
University and art at SAIC. Inspired by reading Lithuanian alphabet
books to her son, A Is for Bee is her debut picture book.

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BIG DREAMS, SMALL FISH
By Paula Cohen

I n the new country, Shirley and her family all have big dreams. Take the
family store: Shirley has great ideas about how to make it more modern!
Prettier! More profitable! She even thinks she can sell the one specialty no
one seems to want to try: Mama’s homemade gefilte fish.
But her parents think she’s too young to help. And
anyway, they didn’t come to America for their little girl
to work. “Go play with the cat!” they urge.
This doesn’t stop Shirley’s ideas, of course. And
one day, when the rest of the family has to rush out,
leaving her in the store with sleepy Mrs. Gottlieb . . .
Shirley seizes her chance!
With illustrations that evoke Peggy Rathmann and
Maurice Sendak, Big Dreams, Small Fish is a picture
book for the entrepreneurs of
And there was work to do!
the next generation; for kids brimming with ideas,
and who just need an adult to trust them. (Or leave
them in charge of a deli for an afternoon because
they have no other choice.)

“You know Shirley, you have some pretty

PAULA COHEN grew up in Albany, NY where her grandparents
good ideas in that keppele afterowned
all,” said Mama.
a small family grocery store in an immigrant neighborhood. Hersaid
“That’s my smart meydele,” family
Papa.
treasured books, music, and the Yiddish language (which sadly she
never learned). Her grandmother made amazing kugels and gefilte fish
and luckily Paula learned to make both. Paula now lives in a ramshackle
1920’s home in NJ with her family and mini schnauzer. Big Dreams,
Small Fish is her debut picture book.

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 And there was Mrs. Hernandez. And Mr. Lombardo.
The Traub boys. Miss Han. The whole neighborhood.
 All lined up. And all waiting for the
new neighborhood delicacy: gefilte fish.

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 GIBBERISH
By Young Vo

I
w gibberish t’s Dat’s first day of school in a new country! Dat
and his Mah made a long journey to get here, and
Dat doesn’t know the language. To Dat, everything
everybody says — from the school bus driver to his
new classmates — sounds like gibberish. How is Dat
going to make new friends if they can’t understand
each other?
in the air.
But there’s a friendly girl in
Dat’s class who knows that there
Gibberish was in the books and in the air.
are other ways to communicate, besides just talking.
With the help of a notebook and some colorful pencils,
Dat learns her name — Julie! And gibberish begins to
sound just a little less like gibberish, and a little more
like home.

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YOUNG VO learned to draw before he could write. He drew a lot of

characters, then began to write stories for them. There were not many
job choices that he could make, so he decided to be an animator,
illustrator, and author.
Now he writes and draws his stories before the sun rises, then during
the day, he animates.

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 FRANK AND THE BAD SURPRISE
By Martha Brockenbrough and Jon Lau

F rank and the Bad Surprise is the first in a chapter book series about
an exceptionally literary, dignified, and contented cat  . . . and the
development that ruins his life.
When Frank’s people bring home a box, he thinks, “Fantastic! There is
no better present. I will make it my lair.” But the box turns out to contain bad
news. Inside is a new, and entirely unwelcome, family addition— a PUPPY.
In response to the insult of this puppy, Frank has only one recourse. A
sharply worded missive. When Frank’s humans respond

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to start.
36 JON LAU tells whimsical stories that are inspired by nature,
37 animals, and
our interactions with them. He is based in Los Angeles.

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YOU ARE THE LOVELIEST
By Hans and Monique Hagen, illustrated by Marit Törnqvist,
translated by David Colmer

HANS M O N I Q U E H AG E N

S ometimes our feelings are so big, our dreams and our worries
I L LU S T R AT E D BY M AR IT
that we can’t find the words to express them.
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so wide,

How MUCH love we feel; what a new sibling will bring; exactly what it’s
like to take a hard tumble, or to want the sun to D
shine
COonLMa Erainy
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T R A N S L AT E D BY DAVI
These thoughts and questions are explored by Hans and Monique Hagen
in poems pitched perfectly to the children who wonder.
Marit Törnqvist is their brilliant partner, spreading gorgeous
color and heartfelt imagery across these pages. If you want
DAM ∙ HOBOKEN
MONTCLAIR ∙ AMSTER
a sneak peek at what we mean, turn to the sunflower
spread on page thirty, and feel . . . yourself smile.

HANS and MONIQUE HAGEN are among the most famous

children’s poets in the Netherlands. They were the Dutch
Children’s Book Laureates from 2017 to 2019. They have
won two Silver Pencils for their poetry, among many
other literary prizes. Their poem “You Are the Loveliest”
is beloved in the Netherlands, featured on countless
birth, wedding, and funeral cards. The You Are the Loveliest collection has been
translated into Swedish, German, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, and Farsi.

MARIT TÖRNQVIST was born in Uppsala, Sweden, and moved to the

Netherlands with her family when she was five. Her illustrations of
Astrid Lindgren’s work have gained her international acclaim, as
has her writing. The first book she wrote, A Short Story About Love,
won a Silver Pencil. Bigger Than a Dream, written by Jef Aerts and
illustrated by Marit Törnqvist, was published in the U.S. on Levine
Querido’s inaugural list.

DAVID COLMER is the translator of more than 60 book-length

works of Dutch-language literature and has won many prizes for his
translations, including the Vondel Prize, the IMPAC Dublin Literary
Award, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the NSW Premier and
PEN Translation Prize for his body of work, and the Dutch Foundation
for Literature oeuvre prize.

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but bigger than all those

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GEO-GRAPHICS
By Regina Giménez, translated by Alexis Romay and
Valerie Block

O ur universe is brimming with secrets and surprising curiosities.

You may have asked yourself: Why does the Sun look different from
other planets and stars? Why doesn’t the Moon appear at the same time as
the Sun? How did lakes and deserts and mountains form on Earth? What
makes rivers flow the way they do?
In Geo-Graphics you will find the answers to these questions in the most
fun and magical way – through 96 pages of gorgeous shapes, colors, and
facts. Here our planets and stars, continents and islands, rivers and lakes, and
volcanoes and hurricanes transform into circles, polygons, lines, and spirals
that explain the world around us.
From acclaimed artist Regina Giménez comes a special and unusual atlas
that is a marriage of science and art like no other.

REGINA GIMÉNEZ has always been captivated by old atlases, and

their beautiful pictures and maps. As a child she scanned through
these big books, voraciously looking for facts about the Earth. In
recent years, as an acclaimed artist in her home city of Barcelona,
she has returned to these images to transform them into magnificent
prints, brimming with color.

ALEXIS ROMAY is the author of the novels La apertura cubana and

Salidas de emergencia, and two books of poetry. He has translated
into Spanish eight novels and two memoirs in verse, three novels in
prose, over 40 picture books, and a novel into English. Among other
honors, he has twice won first prize in the International Latino Book
Awards for Best Chapter/Young Adult Book Translation - English to
Spanish. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and son.

VALERIE BLOCK is the author of the novels Was It Something I Said?,

None of Your Business, and Don’t Make a Scene. She has been a fellow
at Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers, and a visiting artist
at the American Academy in Rome. She lives in New Jersey with her
husband and son. This is her first translation.

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MIDDLE
GRADE
&
YOUNG
ADULT
THE ONE WHO LOVES YOU
THE MOST
By medina

I have never felt like I belonged to my body. Never in the way rhythm
belongs to a song or waves belong to an ocean.
It seems like most people figure out where they belong by knowing where
they came from. When they look in the mirror, they see their family in their
eyes, in their sharp jawlines, in the texture of their hair. When they look at
family photos, they see faces of people who look like them. They see faces of
people who they’ll look like in the future.
For me, I only have my imagination.
But I’m always trying.
Twelve-year-old Gabriela is trying to find their place in the world. In their
body, which feels less and less right with each passing day. As an adoptee,
in their all-white family. With their mom, whom they love fiercely and do
anything they can to help with her depression. And at school, where they
search for friends.
A new year will bring a school project, trans and queer friends, and a
YouTube channel that help Gabriela find purpose in their journey. From debut
author medina comes a beautifully told story of finding oneself and one’s
community, at last.

MEDINA (they/them) is a Honduran born transracial adoptee. They

identify as a nonbinary asexual lesbian. They have a dual MFA in writing
for children and young adults and nonfiction from The New School, and
are a 2021 Lambda Literary Fellow. This is their first novel.

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AVIVA VS. THE DYBBUK
By Mari Lowe

S ince the “accident” Aviva has lived with her mother in a tiny apartment
above the mikvah that serves the women of their Orthodox shul.
Aviva’s good at sports. She’s smart, but struggling a bit in school. She
HAD a best friend, Kayla, but for mysterious reasons they’ve fallen out, and
the other girls at school have sided against Aviva.
Making matters worse, Aviva’s mother has never quite recovered from
the event that took Aviva’s father’s life. The community tries to help, but
there’s always a reason to turn down invitations to Shabbat dinner or other
social occasions.
Then there’s the dybbuk, a ghostly boy who makes himself visible only
to Aviva, and who does his best to cause trouble—emptying the purse of one
visitor to the mikvah when she’s not looking. Tearing up the check of another,
when they really need the money.
The dybbuk’s antics start to get worse and worse, just as Aviva’s
deteriorated friendship with Kayla is pushed to a point of confrontation, and
the town they both live in experiences a frightening escalation of anti-Semitic
violence and vandalism . . . bringing up long-repressed memories of family
tragedy.
This story is intensely suspenseful and full of the questions so many
middle schoolers face . . . from will I stop feeling so isolated at school to will
our community be the target of intolerance and violence. But what gives this
story such rich texture and detail are the surroundings and perspective of a
contemporary Orthodox Jewish girl. Debut author Mari Lowe shows us the
feelings of one appealing and vulnerable girl, in a story that is the definition
of achieving the universal through the specific.

MARI LOWE has too little free time and spends it all on writing and
escape rooms. As the daughter of a rabbi and a middle school teacher
at an Orthodox Jewish school, she looks forward to sharing little
glimpses into her community with her books. She lives in New York with
her family, menagerie of pets, and robotic vacuum.

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THE LOST RYŪ
By Emi Watanabe Cohen

K ohei Fujiwara has never seen a big ryū in real life. Those dragons all
disappeared from Japan after the war, and twenty years later, they’ve
become the stuff of legend. Their smaller cousins, who can fit in your palm
and perch on your shoulder, are all that remain. And Kohei loves his ryū,
Yuharu, but . . .
 . . . Kohei has a memory of those big ryū. He knows that’s impossible —
how could he have such a memory, if they all disappeared before he was even
born? Still, it’s there, in his mind. And it’s more real, to Kohei, than most of his
“actual” memories.
Plus, Kohei cherishes the impossible memory, because in it he can see his
grandpa, his Ojiisan — young, vibrant, emotional — staring up at the big ryū
with what looks to Kohei like total and absolute wonder. And that is a very
big deal, because most mornings, Kohei awakes to his single mom sweeping
up shards from shattered sake bottles that Ojiisan had thrown at the wall the
night before. And now, Ojiisan is getting really, really sick.
Kohei needs to get to the New Ryūgū-jō — the dragon egg facility — in
Chiba, and he needs to hatch himself a big ryū before it’s too late. If Ojiisan
could just see one again, Kohei knows everything would get better. He’d stop
drinking. He’d stop throwing bottles. He’d stop being sick. Kohei thinks he
knows a way, using his dad’s old research, to ensure that the ryū comes out
big. With the help of Isolde, the new half-Jewish, half-Japanese girl who’s
just moved in downstairs; Isolde’s Yiddish-speaking dragon, Cheshire; and
Yuharu, of course; Kohei thinks he can do it. Maybe. He doesn’t have a choice.
In The Lost Ryū, debut author Emi Watanabe Cohen gives us a story of
multigenerational pain, magic, and the lengths we’ll go to to save the people
we love, no matter how impossible or silly it sounds.

EMI WATANABE COHEN wrote her first novel when she was 12 years
old—the most complete draft she can find clocks in at 234,780 words.
That’s over 1,000 pages! Her more recent work involves Jewish and/
or Japanese folklore, complicated families, and a dash of improbable
magic. She is a graduate of Brandeis University, where she studied
Creative Writing. The Lost Ryū is her debut novel.

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THE DOVE IN THE BELLY
By Jim Grimsley

T he trailer Ronny grew up in was never a home; at least not in the sense
of a haven. He shared it with his mother and a succession of husbands,
learning to keep to himself, get good grades, work toward a scholarship
(since no one was going to pay for college other than him).
At the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Ronny’s made some
friends, kept his secrets, survived dorm life, and protected his heart.
Until he can’t.
Ben is in some ways Ronny’s opposite; he’s big and solid where Ronny
is small and slight. Ben’s at UNC on a football scholarship. Confident, with
that easy jock swagger, and an explosive temper always simmering. Straight.
He’s aware of the overwhelming effect he has on Ronny. It’s like a sensation
of power. So easy to tease Ronny, throw playful insults, but it all feels
somehow . . . loaded.
Meanwhile Ronny’s mother has moved to Vegas with her latest husband.
And Ben’s mother is fighting advanced cancer. A bubble forms around the
two, as surprising to Ronny as it is to Ben. Within it their connection ignites
physically and emotionally. But what will happen when the tensile strength of
a bubble is tested? When the rest of life intervenes?
The Dove in the Belly is about the electric, dangerous, sometimes tender
but always powerful attraction between two very different boys. But it’s also
about the full cycles of love and life and how they open in us the twinned
capacities for joy and grief.

JIM GRIMSLEY was born in rural eastern North Carolina and was
educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Jim’s first
novel, Winter Birds, won the Sue Kaufman Prize for best first novel
from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a finalist for
the PEN/Hemingway Award. He has published other novels, including
Dream Boy, Kirith Kirin, and My Drowning. His books are available in
Hebrew, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, and Portuguese. He has also published
a collection of plays and most recently a memoir, How I Shed My Skin. His body
of work as a prose writer and playwright was awarded the Academy Award in
Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2005. For twenty
years he taught writing at Emory University in Atlanta.

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IRONHEAD,
OR, ONCE A YOUNG LADY
By Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem, translated by Kristen Gehrman

E ighteen-year-old Constance (“Stance”) is not interested in marriage or in

being a “young lady.” But for a young woman coming of age in the early
1800s, that’s just about all that’s expected of (or available to) her. When her
parents arrange her marriage with a man more than twice her age, she’s
powerless to resist. Stance couldn’t possibly find her newfound husband less
appealing, but what can she do?

Here’s what:
Four months into the marriage, when her dear husband is just beginning to
get surly about her still-empty womb, she can slip out of their bed in the
middle of the night — with every movement she makes, pausing to ensure
that he’s still sound asleep — and she can put on his clothes. She can look in
the mirror and like what she sees. She can sneak out of the house, and before
dawn, visit the local baker’s scrawny son, who has just been drafted into the
army, and offer to take his place.
As a soldier in the Grande Armée of Emperor Napoléon the First, Stance
very quickly becomes beloved in her regiment. She survives rabid dogs, a duel,
and a bullet to the head (thus earning her the title “Ironhead”). Vive l’Empereur!
Hot on Stance’s tail all the while is her younger brother Pieter (whom
Stance not-so-lovingly refers to as “Pieter the Pious”), determined to bring
Stance back home to Ghent where she belongs. The battlefield is no place for
a young lady, after all.
Ironhead, or, Once A Young Lady is the riotous and powerful story of a
fierce renegade, and the silly men who try to bring her down.

JEAN-CLAUDE VAN RIJCKEGHEM is a Belgian writer and producer.

He has a master’s degree in languages. He has written or co-written
screenplays for fifteen feature films in Flanders and the Netherlands
including Cannes Critics’ Week screenplay award winner Moscow,
Belgium (2008). Jean-Claude is the co-author of several critically
acclaimed and widely translated Young Adult novels, including
Galgenmeid and A Sword in Her Hand.

Originally from Charleston, SC, KRISTEN GEHRMAN earned her Master’s

in Language Science with a specialization in Literary Translation from
the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. She now lives in The Hague,
The Netherlands, where she works as a literary translator and teaches
university-level courses in creative translation.

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THE DAYS OF BLUEGRASS LOVE
By Edward van de Vendel, translated by Emma Rault

T ycho Zeling is drifting through his life. Everything in it—school, friends,

girls, plans for the future—just kind of . . . happens. Like a movie he presses
play on, but doesn’t direct.
So Tycho decides to break away from everything. He flies to America to
spend his summer as a counselor at a camp for international kids. And it is
there that Oliver walks in, another counselor, from Norway.
Tycho feels his life stop—and begin again—finally, as his.
The Days of Bluegrass Love was originally published in the Netherlands in
1999. It was a groundbreaking book and has since become a beloved classic
throughout Europe, but has never been translated into English. Here, for the
first time, it is masterfully presented to American readers—a tender, intense,
unforgettable story of first love.

EDWARD VAN DE VENDEL has been a school principal, founder, and

teacher. He has won many of the highest prizes for children’s literature
in the Netherlands, including the Golden Kiss Award for The Days of
Bluegrass Love and its two sequels. He has been nominated four times
for the international Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. Edward lives in
Amersfoort, and travels widely.

EMMA RAULT is a writer of creative non-fiction and an award-winning

translator from German and Dutch. She lives in Los Angeles.

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HIGH SPIRITS
By Camille Gomera-Tavarez

H igh Spirits is a collection of eleven interconnected short stories from the

Dominican diaspora, from debut author Camille Gomera-Tavarez.
It is a book centered on one extended family—the Beléns—across
multiple generations.
It is set in the fictional small town of Hidalpa—and Santo Domingo and
Paterson and San Juan and Washington Heights too.
It is told in a style both utterly real and distinctly magical—and its stories
explore machismo, mental health, family, and identity.
But most of all, High Spirits represents the first book from Camille
Gomera-Tavarez, who takes her place as one of the most extraordinary new
voices to emerge in years.

CAMILLE GOMERA-TAVAREZ is an Afro-Dominican writer, designer,

and creative from New Jersey. She has a BFA in Graphic Design &
Creative Writing from the Maryland Institute College of Art and is
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FREEDOM! THE STORY OF
THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY
By Jetta Grace Martin, Joshua Bloom, and Waldo E. Martin Jr.

T here is a saying: knowledge is power. The secret is this. Knowledge,

applied at the right time and place, is more than power. It’s magic.
That’s what the Black Panther Party did. They called up this magic and
launched a revolution.
In the beginning, it was a story like any other. It could have been yours
and it could have been mine. But once it got going, it became more than any
one person could have imagined.
This is the story of Huey and Bobby. Eldridge and Kathleen. Elaine and
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This is the story of the committed party members. Their supporters and
allies. The Free Breakfast Program and the Ten Point Program. It’s about
Black nationalism, Black radicalism, about Black people in America.
From the authors of the acclaimed book, Black Against Empire: The
History and Politics of the Black Panther Party, and introducing new
talent Jetta Grace Martin, comes the story of the Panthers for younger
readers—meticulously researched, thrillingly told, and filled with incredible
photographs throughout. Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party.

JETTA GRACE MARTIN is a debut author from the San Francisco Bay
Area. She earned her A.B. with honors in Social Studies and African
American Studies from Harvard University, where she won the Cornel
West Prize and the Kathryn Ann Huggins Prize. Jetta is also an award-
winning dancer, performer, and choreographer whose work has been
presented nationally and internationally.

JOSHUA BLOOM is Director of the Social Movements Lab and faculty

in Sociology at University of Pittsburgh, where he studies the dynamics
of insurgent practice and social transformation. He is the co-author
of Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther
Party, which won the American Book Award. Before earning a PhD,
Bloom spent many years as an anti-racist organizer.

WALDO E. MARTIN JR. is the Alexander F. and May T. Morrison

Professor of American History and Citizenship at the University of
California, Berkeley. He is the author of No Coward Soldiers: Black
Cultural Politics in Postwar America (2005), as well as other books, and
the co-author of Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the
Black Panther Party, which won the American Book Award.

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CHAPTE R 2

Bobby Seale was born in 1936 in Dallas, Texas. He was the oldest of
three siblings and five years older than Huey Newton.

When he was fifteen, Bobby befriended another loner named Steve

Brumfield. They would spend hours running through the nearby
Berkeley Hills, dreaming and practice fighting in the semi-wilderness.
They communed with nature as a way to better understand themselves
in the present and to dream of who they could be in the future. As a
result, Bobby became faster and stronger and the bullies began to stay
out of his way. It was the happiest time of Bobby’s young life.

But after high school, Steve joined the military and moved away.
Bobby felt adrift without his best friend. He wandered from city to
city, unable to hold down a job or have a meaningful relationship.
Eventually he wound up back at home. But Bobby knew he couldn’t
stay there, where he would have to constantly defend himself against

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