Dear Reader: A Love Letter to Libraries History Indigenous United States Social Science Native American Studies powerhouse Carla A

powerhouse Carla A

from their early days as part of the Afrocentric rap collective known as the Native Tongues

It beautifully highlights the exciting worlds that are opened up when children begin to read and write

• 2014 Bank Street Best Children's Books of the Year winner

Dear Reader: A Love Letter to Libraries History Indigenous United States Social Science Native American Studies powerhouse Carla AA young Black girl pens a love letter to libraries and books, powerfully expressing the need to see herself represented in stories. From the author that brought you M Is for Melanin. " A rousing call to action for more racially diverse children's literature." Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEW There was just this one thing, this nagging suspicion, that I didn't meet the criteria for a heroine' s condition. In the books that I read, an absence of melanin