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Bada$$ neurodivergent youth activists

No Brain the Same: Neurodivergent Young Activists Shaping Our Future by Lindsay H. Metcalf, Keila V. Dawson, Jeanette Bradley

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No Brain the Same: Neurodivergent Young Activists Shaping Our Future by Lindsay H. Metcalf (Editor), Keila V. Dawson (Editor), Jeanette Bradley (Illustrator) The use of poetry in multiple formats (free verse, couplets, etc) allows this to be accessible to many listeners and readers. From “everyday” people who do big things to people who are famous like Billie Ellish, we learn how the brain is strange, beautiful and capable of almost anything we put our minds to. Each poet tells a story about the person that […]

Be Takei and you know, do stuff!

It Rhymes With Takei by George Takei, Harmony Becker, Steven Scott, and Justin Eisinger

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Cbr17bingo White  It Rhymes With Takei by George Takei, Harmony Becker, Steven Scott, and Justin Eisinger took me over a week to read. This is not because it was a bad graphic novel, but for three main reasons. First, it is actually on the longer side. Second, because it has heavy subjects it deals with. And finally, the pages can be a bit crowded, making images and text blur together and/or making it hard to follow at times, so I just took my time with […]

The first woman to sit down was a teenager

Claudette Colvin: I Want Freedom Now! by Claudette Colvin

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We know Ruby Bridges, Rosa Parks, Dr. King and more of the civil rights movement people, but do you know Claudette Colvin? She was a teenager who one day was sitting on the bus. She was, like Rosa after her, tired and knew her rights. She said No, I’m not giving up my seat. She would be yelled out, arrested and charged with numerous crimes (none of which were true). And her mother and preacher would bail her out of jail. But that was not […]



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