When I was in first grade, I got an award for having read over 100 books that summer. I don’t remember if I got a personal pan pizza. Chances are probably not because I don’t think we had a Pizza Hut in Canyon, but I do remember getting a little package of metallic gold star stickers. Those stars became treasures to be allocated carefully.
Nothing has changed.
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Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin
Taaqtumi: An Anthology of Arctic Horror Stories. Various Authors.
Movies (And Other Things): A Collection of Questions Asked, Answered, Illustrated by Shea Serrano
Music to My Years: A Mixtape Memoir of Growing Up and Standing Up by Cristela Alonzo
Patricia Marie Perea 