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Animated read-aloud of Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness, read by author Anastasia Higginbotham
When it comes to race, the experience you most need to understand is your own. The people you most need to talk to are your own family members.
This book can help you do that. Right now.
Excerpt of IntersectionAllies Teaching Guide by Chelsea Johnson, LaToya Council and Carolyn Choi
From the creators of the IntersectionAllies book, the Teaching Guide includes 56 pages of discussion prompts, worksheets, and activities for grades K-5. Get two free lessons now!
Available in print and PDF formats. School licensing info can be found here.
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Excerpt of What You Don’t Know: A Story of Liberated Childhood by Anastasia Higginbotham
For one "oversensitive" sixth grader, knowing he's gay isn't what worries him. He might not be out yet, but he can sense his parents' concern, his friends' acceptance, and the church's hypocrisy. But what all of them don't know is that it's never occurred to him to do anything but love himself, and until he senses that it's safe to come out, he just plans on radiating love.
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Download The Nightlife of Jacuzzi Gaskett by Brontez Purnell
At night Jacuzzi, age 11, takes care of things if mom is out. A collaboration between the artists Brontez Purnell (writer) and Elise Peterson (illustrator) portrays a common childhood experience of responsibility and family life that is almost never depicted in children's books.
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Exclusive Trailer for Ali Bryan’s The Hill
Set in a dark near-future where overconsumption and the climate crisis have come to a chaotic head, The Hill tells the story of Wren, the newly chosen leader of a secret clan of girls taught to survive by their own wits. Their home? A reclaimed garbage dump in the middle of the ocean called the Hill. Their bible? The Manual, which tells the girls everything they need to know about the world—or so they think. The gospel? Men and boys are dangerous.
Video by Eleven Creative, narrated by Nina Grollman.
Excerpt of The Hill
Get hooked on the first two chapters of The Hill, where Wren makes the fateful decision to leave home in search of a missing girl and begins to unravel the secrets of the Hill.
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Send Pics Reading Group Guide
At long last, the perfect middle grade and young adult book club blueprint for Lauren McLaughlin’s Send Pics. Created by Dottir’s very own book club architect Sigrid, age 14, this ten-week discussion guide accompanies readers with honesty, compassion, and curiosity.
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The Hill Reading Group Guide
Sigrid is back! This time, Dottir’s book club architect extraordinaire has created a guide for Ali Bryan’s pulse-racing YA novel. Free to download, it includes a reading schedule, discussion questions, and an end-of-book activity.
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Discussion Questions for Pass with Care: Memoirs
Perfect for your next reading group.
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Anastasia Higginbotham’s Roller Workshop Guide on Chosen Kin
This workshop, based on What You Don’t Know: A Story of Liberated Childhood, helps participants identify (and rollerskate) with anyone in the world whose presence or love is a source of permission to be themselves, be loved, and belong.
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Library of America Live: Women’s Liberation! Feminist Writings That Inspired a Revolution and Still Can
Featuring Alix Kates Shulman, Honor Moore, Barbara Smith, Margo Jefferson, and Jennifer Baumgardner
Recorded March 18, 2021
I Had An Abortion (2005), a film by Gillian Aldrich and Jennifer Baumgardner
We have made this film available at an accessible rate to remind us that people we all know and love have had abortions—and will need abortions in the future.
