num_pages: 32
description: This triumphant picture book recasts a charged phrase as part of a black girl's everyday life--hands up for a hug hands up in class hands up for a high five--before culminating in a moment of resistance at a protest march.A young black girl lifts her baby hands up to greet the sun reaches her hands up for a book on a high shelf and raises her hands up in praise at a church service. She stretches her hands up high like a plane's wings and whizzes down a hill so fast on her bike with her hands way up. As she grows she lives through everyday moments of joy love and sadness. And when she gets a little older she joins together with her family and her community in a protest march where they lift their hands up together in resistance and strength.
language: None
title: Hands Up!
publisher: Dial Books