Booktalking with Allie the Librarian
A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow, Some Other Now and The Black Friend by Allie the Librarian
Allie Cornejo, is booktalking YA Graphic Novels A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow by Laura Taylor Namey, Some Other Now by Sarah Everett, and nonfiction book, The Black Friend by Frederick Joseph.
A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow is Reese Witherspoon's YA pick for her Hello Sunshine Book Club, which Allie closely follows and loves. Allie is also taking influences from TLA Annual Conference by reading the The Black Friend by Frederick Joseph, who was the Keynote Speaker who spoke on truths regarding racism in America, and Some Other Now by Sarah Everett from TLA's author panel Secrets and Lies: Unreliable Narrators in YA Lit. Enjoy hearing about these amazing books Allie booktalks after a lengthy hiatus.
A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow By Laura Taylor Namey
A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club YA Pick
"A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow is an absolute delight. Cozier than a hand-knit gray cardigan and richer than Abuela’s pastelito recipe, Namey takes you from Miami to Winchester, and leaves your heart belonging to both." (Rachael Lippincott, number one New York Times best-selling author of Five Feet Apart)
Love & Gelato meets Don’t Date Rosa Santos in this charming, heartfelt story following a Miami girl who unexpectedly finds love - and herself - in a small English town.
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Some Other Now By Sarah Everett
This Is Us for teens, this luminous and heartbreaking contemporary novel follows a girl caught between two brothers as the three of them navigate family, loss, and love over the course of two summers. For fans of Far From the Tree, Emergency Contact, and Nina LaCour.
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The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person By Frederick Joseph
The instant New York Times bestseller!
Writing from the perspective of a friend, Frederick Joseph offers candid reflections on his own experiences with racism and conversations with prominent artists and activists about theirs—creating an essential read for white people who are committed anti-racists and those newly come to the cause of racial justice.
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