Dear Reader: A Love Letter to LibrariesA voracious young reader loves nothing more than going to the library and poring through books all day, making friends with characters and going off on exciting adventures with them. However, the more she reads, the more she notices that most of the books don't have characters that look like her, and the only ones that do tell about the most painful parts of their history. Where are the heroines with Afros exploring other planets and the superheroes

and she soon faces the ultimate sacrifice

In Drinking from Graveyard Wells

Genie's summer is full of surprises

with ambition and secrets

price and humility

presented with their own words

Angie Thomas

and author of Brave Enough to Be Broken

They're trying to hide it by repeatedly telling Portico to go check on a neighbor "in the meantime

Brown is the wooden spoon he uses for mixing and baking

She can protect her professional reputation and return to her old life or she can flirt with the unknown and stay with the person who makes her feel like she's finally living again

It is the written form of what our music aims to do