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2024 Pearls
Here are some of the BIPOC Pearls who have contributed to youth literature and have gone on to the ancestors.
INTERVIEW: Cheryl Willis Hudson
Music is an especially emotive form of storytelling. It’s truly a universal language and I hope readers will take away an appreciation for spirituals as a valued basis for so much of the music produced in the USA.
Review: A Constellation of Minor Bears
These three teens know each other so well! In Constellation they are each facing situations and decisions that are difficult for them individually and impossible collectively.
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Lucia Gonzalez: Latine Heritage Month in the Library
Taking those books home allowed me to escape the entrapment of those silent days when I could not communicate in English. I will never forget the feeling of joy upon receiving that first library card!
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Practicing Care – pt. 2
Being one of the few in our library working to alleviate any of this while calling out an unresponsive leadership team is a demoralizing blow from a faulty system. It erodes us and makes us feel we're working to change a broken system.
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