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I was locking my locker key IN my locker…. she was changing the world!

All the Way to the Top: How One Girl's Fight for Americans with Disabilities Changed Everything by Annette Bay Pimentel

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All the Way to the Top: How One Girl’s Fight for Americans with Disabilities Changed Everything is a power powerful story in a picture book format. We follow a young girl and see what she was able to do; what she showed the world what she and others like her, could do. You see, Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins has MS and needs the use of a wheelchair. But she finds many places closed to her. Even school. Partly this is due to physically unable to enter buildings, […]

Social justice and poetry

Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice by Mahogany L. Browne

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Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice is a book that I really wish I did not have to rate. It is a personal experience book that everyone will get something different from it. There are elements you will find to love and to dislike; plus, things in-between. I personally am not a fan of the word “woke” in this context. But I like being “woke” to these events. I just wish there was a different word to use. And the poets, Mahogany L. Browne, […]

What were you doing at age 15 and 16?

Our House Is on Fire: Greta Thunberg's Call to Save the Planet by Jeanette Winter

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I was worried that Our House Is on Fire: Greta Thunberg’s Call to Save the Planet by Jeanette Winter would be preachy. I was afraid it would get “controversial” and “too political” and lose the message in being “PC.” Honestly, I thought it might try to “push” an opinion on you one way or the other. However, it is a lovely and straight forward look at Ms. Thunberg and what she did and what she is doing. I have a feeling the text is as […]



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