A Home on the Page

Nou loves the brown house where her family lives and the trees that shelter it, until she wakes one morning to find a hateful mess left there. Kao Kalia Yang writes about racist vandalism at the height a child experiences it, which is not as politics but as the sudden discovery that the safe place was never guaranteed. It is the most direct treatment of anti-Hmong racism in this catalog written for young readers, and Yang resists the tidy recovery a picture book usually offers. Published in 2026, it is the newest book on the shelf. Read it alongside The Rock in My Throat, where the injury is quieter and comes from inside a classroom. For ages 5 to 9, classrooms, and families who have had to explain this.