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Middle Grade, Windows & Mirrors, Young Adult

Featured: Graphic Novel MANUELITO, a refugee story

Welcome to Windows & Mirrors, where we feature books that provide us windows to lives outside our own and mirrors to our shared common human experiences. Today we are featuring MANUELITO, written by Elisa Amado and illustrated by Abraham Urias. Kids hear adults talking all the time about the refugee crisis, families seeking asylum, ICE, deportation, and problems at our borders. It must be confusing … Continue reading Featured: Graphic Novel MANUELITO, a refugee story

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Book Recommendations, Windows & Mirrors, Young Adult

Windows & Mirrors: DREAM COUNTRY by Shannon Gibney

Welcome to Windows & Mirrors, where we feature books that provide us windows to lives outside our own and mirrors to our shared common human experiences. This week we are featuring Dream Country by Shannon Gibney. DREAM COUNTRY begins with the incredible and gut-wrenching story of a seventeen-year-old Liberian refugee. Kollie, who is both too black and not black enough for his African-American peers, is … Continue reading Windows & Mirrors: DREAM COUNTRY by Shannon Gibney

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