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SEASON 2 DA CREW PODCAST_EPISODE _50 _ HOST PATRICE GRIMBALL · DA CREW Podcast

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Persons. All things ain't what they used to be. Where you all the
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blue sky that's for boys in blue from the north South things well, person
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your book. Hello, Hello, hey yo, and welcome to the Crew
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one. We're back them devas of the airways, so thank you for joining
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Chat. We're gonna be talking about the latest and book reviews, off the
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in the club? They're getting welcomed me. Hey, everyone, is your
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girl? SC book out eight four three, And yes it's a Monday night,
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so of course I am here. No, not really, but I
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am here. This is the Bonus show and I want to dedicate this show
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to all the librarians out there because this past week it was National Librarians Week
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and I would like to say thank you guys for paving away and for everything
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you do in the community. But also April is National Poetry Money, so
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tonight, I am going to give you recommendation for some of the best poetry
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books out there for any age level. I have elementary grade, middle grade,
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between and adults okay, and young adults okay. So I want you
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to go ahead, get your paper, your pencils so you could job down
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some of these wonderful titles. That is also a feature in April's edition of
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an Aspire Author's magazine. Every month I give you about five to ten books
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pertaining to a certain subject and it is our best of the best. Okay.
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So we're gonna go ahead and get started with National Poetry Free. Okay.
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So again, this is April twenty twenty four, and this is our
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book spot for National Poetry Money. Okay. So here's some statistic for you
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guys. Natural Poetry Month was created in nineteen ninety six to bring forthfront the
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vital contribution of poets to our cultural landscape and the significance of poetry itself.
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Poetry, what we call in the library, is a language of expression.
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Technically, almost anybody can be a poet because they're just expressing themselves. Your
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poetry does not have to rhyme, It does not have to have a Stanza.
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It just has to be about you, your emotions and how you feel
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about certain topic, places, things, really anything. Okay. Each year,
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tens of millions of participants, including readers, student, educators, library,
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everybody, we zone in and focus on the impact of poetry in our
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existence. Okay, guess what, you guys, the concept of the rap
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battle. Yes, the same thing you saw on Eminem and Homeboy in the
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movie that existed in the fifth century. This is what poets would engage in
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flighting, a spoken word event where the poets would battle each other. Okay,
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So poetry and battle rap has been here for the longest. Okay.
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So, like I said, we're gonna give you some great reads. Okay,
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We're gonna go to the next one. So this is just one of
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the things that we have in library. This is called too poetry. Okay.
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So at my job, I have all of these just spread out on
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an end cap in my teens. Every day they come and they make their
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own. So this was one that I just took in from when we were
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doing it on a sheet of paper, and it did not have this words.
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This one is a camber one. But there is one that we have
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that they would put down their emotions every day. Okay, I think one
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girl put the day beauty is painful or painless or something along my line.
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But they were just expressing the way they feel. Okay, next one,
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here's some famous African Americans poets, so list sweetly Langston Hughes, Nikki Giovanni
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of course one of my favorite, TUPACX and Amanda Gorman. So as you
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can see, poetry just falls through the ages and comes to mind. A
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lot about poetry is very is embedded in the hallm Renaissance. That's when poetry
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really really hit the stage for African Americans because we started talking about the plight,
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the fight, in the victory. Okay, just from the Hollan Runners
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on. So much of the the music, the dance, the clothing,
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the flair of African American you could say, really started there and continue to
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where we have it on that Okay, our next life. So parents,
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I'm always telling us, let's get these kids back to reading. So here's
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some great suggestions for children's zero to nine. Okay, this is a great
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time to spend that day with your child and wrap it up with some love.
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Okay, here's one of the twenty twenty three recipients Call More Than Words
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by Rodz McLean. It's a tender, stunning, illustrated picture book that explores
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the cell, the mini form of expression, singing, speaking, signing,
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smiling, and among others, and includes an additional material at the end of
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the book with vocabulary and an introduction to various forms of communication. Now,
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the reason why I chose this book is because the signing at the end of
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the book. Okay, me and my daughter were an uber and our uber
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driver had a hard time hearing it was so cool that he took the time
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out to show my daughter how to sign thank you, and she just kept
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doing doing it the whole time, the whole time, and it was wonderful
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that she learned another expression of language. And I really feel that more African
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Americans should look into other expressive ways of language, just like we do the
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booty popping. But you know, mind, I'm gonna be nice and uncle
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there. Okay, but this is one great read for anybody from zero to
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five. That's a recommendation. Okay. Next Life Ensue's Stories by Langston Hughes
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twenty twenty four. I know you're thinking, hold up, Langston Hughes,
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twenty twenty four. A lot of a lot of the poetry of Langston Hughes
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is reuse. It's crazy, right, But a lot of our storytelling has
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already been here before, as we say in Geechee, been here before.
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So this is just a retelling in an ancient and powerful human tradition. It
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ties us to the cultural memory and the experiences of those who came before us,
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linking one generation to the next. You guys, the illustrations in this
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book are beautiful. We call this in the library the coffee table book.
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Yes, this will give you along the lines of Jonathan Green. And if
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you know Jonathan Green, his artwork is very exquisite and tells the tale of
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African American history. This book is just like that on a kid's level.
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It is a contemporary aliors Gary Keyler Pears Were Huges nineteen twenty six Points in
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a picture book formed to invite young learners to curl up and listen to Aunt.
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Sue recounts her many shadow cross stories of slavery and life is hard lived.
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Are there any disclaimers in this book? No, But this book has
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been on a bandless and the reading why it was on a bandless is because
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of it depicting slavery and hard life. But I will say this, it
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is life, it happened. It's a great conversation starter. Okay, check
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this one out, all right, We're gonna go to the next one.
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You guys, How to Write a Poem by Kwame Alexander and Deanna Ninkindo.
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I love Kwame. Meeting him and Charleston, South Carolina at Yolfice was so
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much fun between him and Jason Reynolds. They are my favorite male contemporary young
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adult and a young adult in tween authors. Kwame teens up with poet Deanna
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can Go and Caldecott, Honoree Melissa Sweet to celebrate the magic of discovering your
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very own poetry in the world around you. Kwame is a big advocate of
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telling your stories. He always has some type of essay contest going on.
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He's always volunteering his time to schools and goes across the world speaking of poetry.
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His books are very much so on how demand when it comes to the
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library. So you want to check this one out. I would say this
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is the great one for your third and year fourth graders, something that they'll
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be able to handle on theirself. Watch, just a little bit of help
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from mom, teach your friend or someone that is able to guide. Okay,
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I'm next slight you guys. So this age group is the finnicky age
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group because this is the ten to fourteen whereas they are two big for the
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baby books but too young for the for the young adult books. So this
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is a special category we call tweens ten to fourteen. All of these books
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will be on their level. Okay. This one is called Right reand for
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You by Saphena Ihalo Make a world. Is this new publishing company want to
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say and exist in maybe one or two years. The reason why I love
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this publishing company. Look at that cover, you guys. Check that cover.
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I'm a cover girl, so if your cover grabs me, I'm gonna
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read your book. This is one of those ones that we put out on
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an end cap and it's gone just like this because of the cover. Bad
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girl. Know how matter how hard so Maya tried, she can't shake her
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represent representation her, y'all know what I'm saying. Reputation. She never has
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gotten the benefit of a doubt, not from her mother or her aunties who
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watch her like a hawk. Okay, So we're talking about this young girl
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who she always stayed in trouble, always, always, always, but there
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was something that was going on in her life that placed her in the situations
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that she was. But over the time in this book, her character has
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to go so through so much more that now she's having to prove herself or
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lose her let's say, lose her reputation as the backer. Okay. So
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in other words, this is the back girl going good, but you're gonna
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lose a lot of friends down the line. So I usually get this one
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to I call them my hardcore girls, my girls of the attitude essence.
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This is the one I get them to, bright red fruit, great read.
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You do not want to not read this one. Next one mid Air
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by Alicia D. Williamson. This one, you guys, is for my
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fellas. It is what we call a quick reading. And the reading.
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Why we call him quick read because all the poems are less than two pages.
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And this is one for my reluctant readers. My kids just say I
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don't want to read. I don't read any books. This is one that
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they would love. Okay. A hit and run killed Darius in the midst
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of a record breaking long Willy when Isaiah should have been keeping watch, ready
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to warn car. Now Drew can barely look at Isaiah. But Isaiah,
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already quaking with ache and guilt, can't lose two friends, so he has
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to come up with a plan to keep Drew and him together, so they
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could spend the summer breaking records for Darius. But Drew's not the same drews
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Asarius was killed and Isaiah be in. Isaiah isn't enough for Drew anymore now,
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not that his tasting closes, his love of rock music and his aversion
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to jumping off roofs rooftops. And one day something unspeakable happens to Isaiah that
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makes him think true's right. If only he could be less sensitive, more
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tough, less weird, more cool, less him, things be aling easy.
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But how much can in Isaiah keep inside when he shattered wide open?
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This is another great read when you're talking about teens and how to deal with
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their emotion. This book does bring raw emotion out, but it is done
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in the most beautiful way. You guys want to need mid Air by Alicia
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D. Williams our next one, You, guys, I just love this
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because we all have that one person and in our lives on the street back
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in the day that we call the mayor. Okay, on my on street,
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they still keep it like that if we call the mister president, and
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mister President knew everything that was going on the street. This book brought that
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back to mind. Lessons from my Grandpa, the Mayor of tenth Avenue a
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collection of poems and rhymes. You guys, it is just like a sound,
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that poetry book that reminds you of your past. Okay, you remember
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the fire hydrants and hey the police are I'm sorry the fire fire used to
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take the water out. Call yourself flushing the line, Oh the flushing line.
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That was us running around that water. This was playing football in the
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middle street, moving out the way so the cars came home by This is
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your type of book. When reading this book, I can see the great
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Grandmama sitting on her pouch on the front porch. From her couch, I
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could see the chili Bay lady with all the kids are getting a little quarter
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chili bears. This one great read. Great for those who are struggling with
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reading, but do not want to show that they're struggling. Okay, Lessons
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from my grandpa, the mayor tenth Avenue. Next one, my young adults,
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These are for you. These are now mature titles that you guys want
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parents. Do not shy away from me. Some of the subjects are controversial,
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but like I said, controversial books are called conversation starters in which we
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need in our households today. Next side, please brown girl Grim. Now
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this one I'm gonna say. I have not read. This is on my
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to be read list. The reason why I chose this book, you guys,
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look at the cover. Overall this collection of the poetry, points and
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skits, monologues about raising black, returning to our basic that is essentulness,
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to our relationship to friends, family, community and faith. Yet through the
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life of joy and pain and finding the stuff about faith, resilience and hope.
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Again, Okay, that title was enough. Okay, writing is a
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love and hate thing. Whereas I struggle to get what I want, need
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to say all as clearly, cleanly, as clearly as possible. That was
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said by the author of this book, Penny mccheron. You guys, this
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is on my TV read Look and you can notice it has not even been
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released yet. The release date I want to see mayfifth in about two weeks,
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So this one I will be grabbing. Okay, next one, Black
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Girl, You Are an Atlas by Renee Watson. My daughter loves Renee Watson.
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It was crazy. My daughter is fond of this series called the Dork
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Diaries. It is stencil is. It's the girl's version of a diary of
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a wimpy kid. Okay, so me thinking that, oh my god,
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my daughter's not reading the book. Why is she want this series? This
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series has nothing to do with her. I want her to read more books
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by African American or the first authors. Come to find out, y'all,
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the author is an African American. Baby. You could read all of them
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the way she comes off you with the characters in the Dork Diary or Colorless
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Colorless, and I do like that. This one is one of the new
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ones that has been released last week last week. Yeah. In a semi
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autographical collection of poems, Renee Watson writes about her experience growing up as a
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young black girl in an intersection of race, class, a gender. I
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think this one is one that needs to be in the forefront right now.
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I have not read this one because it's just came in, but this is
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also on my to be read list. Using various poetic forms of hakus to
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free verse, Watson shared her recollection of her childhood and Portland tendall ols to
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the black woman in her life and the urging car for black girls to step
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into their power. So you guys want to grab this one. Black girl,
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you are an Atlas by Renee Watson. Next one and for my boys,
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you know I can lead them out. It's called Dark Testimony Blackout Points
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by Crystal Simon Smith. Blackout Points is very popular. Okay, uh,
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we have that at our library. We do that every April. We give
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our teens h page out of an old book and they make poetry by blacking
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out the words until the words that are still being shown is a poetry.
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It's very popular, bold and deeply affecting. Black. Dark Testament is a
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relo. Is a remarkable reckoning of our present moment, a call to action
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and a plea for more, for a more just future. This one was
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released last year, did not get much attention. It is not until I
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saw this author at PLA that it became on my radar. So you guys
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want to read this Dark Testament Blackout Points by Crystal Simone Smith. So of
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course we gonna go to our adults. We can't leave you guys by yourself.
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Okay, So here's my recommendation for adult books. Next one. So
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you know, I had to put this because she was on my show.
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That book. That book. That book. That's all I'm gonna tell you.
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Matter fact. I want to go and share the show that she was
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on because some of that poetry in the book, I was like, oh
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my god. Reflecting who develops from the concept of self reflection, a skill
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that many of us have failed to grasp, and involve dedicating time to acting
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ourself the crucial questions we often neglect to act ourselves despite others posing these querries
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to us. This is the second in the Phoenix Phoenix series. The questions
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there. I think she either this one or the book before is loosely about
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her life and some of the things she's been through. The poetry is sweet.
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There's one book even about a mistress. On one poem that's even about
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a mistress, which was like, oh my god, but it was an
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eye opener. Could it makes you think from her standpoint of view? But
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grab this one. This is new I'm telling you, the cover by itself
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is just awesome. Reflections Rising by Marsine and Moore. Next one. See,
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y'all know, I have to have this right. My buddies, Micheryl
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J. Jackson and Miss Leris Watson, two sisters, Sisters the rock and
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rhyme think eighties, nineties, a different world, poetry, your whole eighties
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and nineties, your whole For me, it's my whole teenage years and my
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upbringing is in this book, y'all. It was the best seller, and
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I think it's number four or five now. When it came out, it
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was best seller, straight to the top. The cover, by itself is
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one of those books that you just I asked them you can I get a
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picture of the cover. She said, she's gonna send it to me.
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Yes. But the book itself is wonderful. It gives me the eighties and
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nineties field of the childhood, the outside, the bamboo earrings, the cross
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colors. Yes, so you got sisters of rock and rhymes represent points in
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the Key of life. You gotta grab that one. Next one. So
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I don't think our producer was not. I hope she knew that I was
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gonna put her books in here the queen of collaboration herself, and I am
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very happy to be a part of this book series. Okay, y'all solidly
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hurting aside the three book series Forgiveness, Hope, and Love. You guys
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have to grab this. I participated, and I want to say either one
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or two. Yeah, one or two of them. And it helped me.
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It helped me get through the crazy stuff. But whenever my sisters say,
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hey girl, we're about to do this, this, and this,
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and if I can do it, I'm gonna do it. And she gave
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me the opportunity to be a part of this wonderful book and I did it.
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It is still Kindle unlimited. That's why I showed y'all. So if
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you had a Kindle Onliberted, you paid that eleven ninety nine a month,
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go ahead investing yourself and reading these three titles. Again. We're gonna go
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to the next line. And I can't forget to talk and brag about your
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copy and for to congratulate our twenty twenty four poetrys of the Year Missus Johnson.
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Congratulations on winning this title. You will see her every month and Aspiring
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Author Magazine Poetry Section she is going to contribute to it. She won this
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award and they voted for her, not any of us at the magazine.
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The people spoke for themselves. Congratulations, miss Johnson. Next line, what
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does it say? Thank you for joining us? I thank you, I
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thank you, I thank you. These book recommendations I love to do,
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and we call them book talks. I can't always have authors. I need
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to tell you what I read. So thank you for joining us tonight.
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I see you Saturday night, a new book, a new author, all
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at eight, Good night everyone, Bye, Thank you for joining us tonight.
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We hope you found a new book to read or a new author to
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explore. Join us again in two weeks for sc book yaus and friends chat.
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Have a good evening. Bye, all things and thanks. Where did
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