Kids in grades 4 & 5 are invited to join our seventh children's program in the Sudbury CARES series:  the Goodnow Kids Book Discussion of The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond by Brenda Woods.  The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond is a moving, uplifting story of a girl finally meeting the African American side of her family. Violet is biracial, but she lives with her white mother and sister, attends a mostly white school in a white town, and sometimes feels like a brown leaf on a pile of snow. Now that she’s eleven, she feels it’s time to learn about her African American heritage, so she seeks out her paternal grandmother. When Violet is invited to spend two weeks with her new Bibi (Swahili for "grandmother") and learns about her lost heritage, her confidence in herself grows and she discovers she’s not a shrinking Violet after all.  

Copies of The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond are available at the Goodnow Library. Call 978-440-5540 to reserve a copy for contactless pickup. The audiobook is also available for free download through Hoopla.

Sudbury CARES (Community Anti-Racism Education Series) is a community-wide initiative formed to create a space for everyone in our community to discuss and learn about racism, causes of systemic racism, and what can be done to counteract it.