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Picture books about Life, Love and Loss
"Books discussed at the Vashon Library workshop: Picture books for Difficult Conversations, part one."
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Last Stop on Market Street
"All of these books feature themes of diversity, kindness, impoverishment, and cityscapes."
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Poverty and Homelessness
"According to the National Center on Family Homelessness 2.5 million children experience homelessness every year. The National Center for Children in Poverty states that 21% of all children in the USA live below the federal poverty line. The books ..."
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Read Woke: Voices of Those Experiencing Poverty and Homelessness
"A Woke Book must
✔︎ Challenge a social norm
✔︎ Give voice to the voiceless
✔︎ Provide information about a group that has been disenfranchised
✔︎ Seek to challenge the status quo
✔︎ Have a protagonist from an underrepresented or oppressed group
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