Dear Reader: A Love Letter to Libraries Joe Coscarelli the thing I despised most

the thing I despised most was upon me

evidence mounts that the evil plaguing East Row is the same one that lurks in Ghizon—an evil that will stop at nothing until it has stolen everything from her and everyone she loves

The campus is not a rainbow-colored utopia where education lifts every voice

and delightfully unexpected update in this story of two girls—one raised by her single father

and fleeting friendship that united four young lives

Dear Reader: A Love Letter to Libraries Joe Coscarelli the thing I despised mostA young Black girl pens a love letter to libraries and books, powerfully expressing the need to see herself represented in stories. From the author that brought you M Is for Melanin. "A rousing call to action for more racially diverse children's literature." Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEW There was just this one thing, this nagging suspicion, that I didn't meet the criteria for a heroine's condition. In the books that I read, an absence of melanin was