Month: April 2025

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Momma’s Going to March

Momma’s Going to March
by Jennifer Maruno (Author) and Vivian Rosas (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Follow several children over time as they accompany their mothers to different peaceful protest marches, where they advocate for the environment, freedom, equality, peace and clean water. They help make signs and banners, decorate wagons, carry flags and beat drums. Momma shows them that advocacy can be fun … and that they can do it, too!

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We Sing From the Heart

We Sing From the Heart: How The Slants® Took Their Fight for Free Speech to the Supreme Court
by Mia Wenjen (Author) and Victor Bizar Gómez (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Music is a way to transcend cultures and divides. Simon Tam used his band’s name, The Slants®, to make a powerful statement that racist insults could no longer be hurtful to Asian Americans. But then the U.S. Trade and Patent Office tries to stop him. In his eight-year battle to win trademark protection, Simon would go all the way to the Supreme Court in a landmark case to rout out structural racism in our government systems.

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Nonfiction Monday

It’s Nonfiction Monday!

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