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Stand as Tall as the Trees: How an Amazonian Community Protected the Rain Forest
by Patricia Gualinga (Author), Laura Resau (Author), and Vanessa Jaramillo (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Patricia (Paty) Gualinga grew up in her Kichwa village in the Amazon of Ecuador where mystical beings called Amazanga help protect the forest. Paty traveled away from home for school until she was called back–companies that said the government sold them property were destroying her people’s lands to look for oil. The Kichwa community worked with other Indigenous groups to bring the Ecuadorian government to the Court of Human Rights.

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Also available in Spanish as Con la cabeza en alto: Cómo una comunidad amazónica protegió la selva:

It’s STEM Friday! (STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)

A Work in Progress
by Jarrett Lerner (Author / Illustrator)
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Booktalk: Will is the only round kid in a school full of string beans. So he hides–in baggy jeans and oversized hoodies, in the back row during class, and anywhere but the cafeteria during lunch. But shame isn’t the only feeling that dominates Will’s life. He’s also got a crush on a girl named Jules who knows he doesn’t have a chance with–string beans only date string beans–but he can’t help wondering what if?

Will’s best shot at attracting Jules’s attention is by slaying the Will Monster inside him by changing his eating habits and getting more exercise. But the results are either frustratingly slow or infuriatingly unsuccessful, and Will’s shame begins to morph into self-loathing.

As he resorts to increasingly drastic measures to transform his appearance, Will meets skateboarder Markus, who helps him see his body and all it contains as an ever-evolving work in progress.

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