In WAYS TO MAKE SUNSHINE (Bloomsbury, 192 pp., $16.99; ages 8 to 11), Renée Watson gives us the first installment in a series about the fourth grader Ryan Hart, a Ramona-inspired character whom ...

"Ways to Make Sunshine" is the first book in a series about a Black fourth-grader learning to find joy, writes Renée Watson, a Portland-raised author of books for young adults. But that was ...