Mac Barnett: Why a good book is a secret door

The Line Tender A National Bestseller A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019 A School Library Journal Best Book of 2019 A Kirkus Best Book of 2019 A Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2019 A Book Page Best Book of 2019 A BCCB Blue Ribbon Book “Kate Allen writes with lyric grace, and her beautifully textured narrative, of a girl struggling to understand and move beyond

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 This is the fire : what I say to my friends about racism / Don Lemon. As America’s only Black prime-time anchor, Don Lemon and his daily monologues on racism and antiracism, on the failures of the Trump administration and of so many of our leaders, and on America’s systemic flaws speak