<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Some great titles have already been mentioned!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">A few others to think about:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Radium Girls <span style="color:rgb(79,64,42);font-family:"Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode","Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px">by Kate Moore</span>(Just to show women's history)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Black Kids by Christina Reed (Black experience)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">All American Muslim Girl by Nadine Courtney (Muslim)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">A Very Large Expanse of Sea by <span style="color:rgb(79,64,42);font-family:"Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode","Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Taheren Mafi (Muslim)</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Something In Between by Melissa Dela Cruz (Latinx)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Stamped - either the adult version of the young adult version by Ibram X. Kendi (Black History/American History)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Midnight Without a Moon by Linda Williams Jackson (Black history - relating to the murder of Emmett Till</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">This Side of Home by Renee Watson (Black experince)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">How To Be Remy Cameron by Julian Winters (bi-racial/gay/adopted experience)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(79,64,42);font-family:"Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode","Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><em>The Night Diary</em> by Veera Hiranandani (Hindu and Muslim) might be a bit more for younger readers </span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(79,64,42);font-family:"Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode","Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Karma by </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Cathy Ostlere (Hindu and Sikh)</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(79,64,42);font-family:"Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode","Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><em>A Land of Permanent Goodbyes</em> by Atia Abawi</span><span style="color:rgb(79,64,42);font-family:"Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode","Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px"> (Syrian Refugees and Muslim)</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(79,64,42);font-family:"Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode","Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><em>Saints and Misfits</em> by S.K. Ali</span><span style="color:rgb(79,64,42);font-family:"Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode","Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px"> (Muslim)</span><span style="color:rgb(79,64,42);font-family:"Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode","Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(79,64,42);font-family:"Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode","Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><em>The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind</em> by William Kamkwamb and Bryan Mealer (African experience)</span><span style="color:rgb(79,64,42);font-family:"Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode","Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(79,64,42);font-family:"Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode","Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px">The Bite of the Mango by </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> Mariatu </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Kamara (African experience)</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Okay, I'll stop! :) </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Have a great day everyone!</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Tasha</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 12:25 PM Flaherty, Megan via AISLE <<a href="mailto:aisle@list.railslibraries.info">aisle@list.railslibraries.info</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">I would think of adding <u>Firekeeper’s Daughter </u>by Angeline Boulley for a Native American perspective.
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [aisle] English canon alternatives<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">All American Boys is a great one. I’d like to add The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater, Kindred by Octavia Butler, Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds (pair with Macbeth), Pride by Ibi Zoboi (pair with R & J), Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, Monster
by Walter Dean Myers, Dear Martin by Nic Stone, The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, Born a Crime by Trevor Noah, Warriors Don't Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals, Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes, Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (all pair with TKAM), The
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<p class="MsoNormal">I also love <a href="https://disrupttexts.org/lets-get-to-work/" target="_blank">
#disrupttexts</a> & <a href="https://twitter.com/ProjectLITComm" target="_blank">project lit community</a>.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Currently Reading</b>: <i>Long Way Down</i> by Jason Reynolds<u></u><u></u></p>
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titles that might work as whole class texts for this age group. They could be fiction, non-fiction, graphics, etc. I know this is a broad ask, but I'd love any ideas or experiences you have!<u></u><u></u></p>
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