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2023 Summer Reading - Read Outside Your Comfort Zone: Frequently Challenged Books
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Audiobooks "Find Your Voice" 2023
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ALA Most Challenged Books
Audiobooks "Find Your Voice" 2023
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Eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, an African-American girl in an America whose love for blonde, blue-eyed children can devastate all others, prays for her eyes to turn blue, so that she will be beautiful, people will notice her, and her world will be different. The story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, the tragic heroine of Toni Morrison's haunting first novel, grew out of her memory of a girlhood friend who wanted blue eyes. Shunned by the town's...
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