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Books Discussed:

Tin House Workshop

Legendary Fry Bread Drive-In edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith

A Beautiful and Terrible Murder by Claire M. Andrews

Songs for Ghosts by Clara Kumagai

The L.O.V.E. Club by Lio Min

White Lies: How the South Lost the Civil War, Then Rewrote the History by Ann Bausum

The Next Generation United Daughters of the Confederacy: Book Censorship News, April 28, 2023

Tall Water by SJ Sindu, Dion MBD

Rosa By Any Other Name by Hailey Alcaraz

Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Perez

This Place Kills Me by Mariko Tamaki, illustrated by Nicole Goux

What Hunger by Catherine Dang

Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes by Sandra Jackson-Opoku

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