Red pencil urchins are abundant, at least off the Kona coast, where the 8- to 12-inch-wide (spines included) urchins are a common sight. At night, I’ve read, the bright red “pencils” turn a pale pink.
This brightly colored sea urchin has short, blunt spines that are not sharp and poisonous like other sea urchin species. They live all over our shallow coral reefs and come in colors from pink, red to ...
Told in free verse and set in the South Darfur region of Sudan in 2003 and 2004, this potent novel from Pinkney (Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America) is built around the distinctive voice ...