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challenging funny informative medium-paced
emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
funny hopeful inspiring medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Loved all the characters and all the stories about how the books affected their circumstances. Wished for a little more closure for some of the characters. 

4.5: comes off as a cozy read, but packs a punch EVERY chapter. I don’t know who to recommend it to but I’m glad I read it.
hopeful fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous funny hopeful inspiring medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I cannot rate this book high enough. We listened to the audio book and enjoyed every minute. 

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
hopeful inspiring medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Love love LOVE this book! It was timely, discussing issues like book banning, white nationalism, anti-Semitism, as well as other issues currently facing this country. While discussing serious topics, there was also some humor throughout the book. It was such a great reminder of the importance of education, of access to information, and of how much power books hold.  Highly recommend to everyone!

My favorite quote was this one:
“I think your scared your children are going to open a book and discover the truth. They’ll realize the Holocaust happened and that slavery was worse than they ever imagined. They’ll find out that both men and women like sex, and gay and trans folks are just regular people. These seem to be the things you’re trying so hard to hide from them. Why is that?”