Living Nations, Living Words pre LIT-CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE Pernickety must find an owner:

Pernickety must find an owner: someone who will truly love him

and sometimes their relationship is bitterly strained

first published in the 1930s and still very popular today

Emily Lloyd-Jones’s middle grade debut is an enchanting exploration of self-discovery and finding the place you truly belong

including Columnist of the Year in the MPA Awards

Living Nations, Living Words pre LIT-CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE Pernickety must find an owner:Joy Harjo, the first Native poet to serve as U. S. Poet Laureate, has championed the voices of Native peoples past and present. Her signature laureate project gathers the work of contemporary Native poets into a national, fully digital map of story, sound, and space, celebrating their vital and unequivocal contributions to American poetry. This companion anthology features each poem and poet from the project including Natalie Diaz, Ray Young Bear,