#WeNeedDiverseBooks

Keith Newvine, West Genesee High School

Sarah Fleming, Westhill High School

CNY Social Justice League Westhill HS Project West Genesee HS Project Lit
@CNY-SJLeague @CuseLit @WGHSProjecLit
Honoring Where We Are
Eric Gansworth
Carson Mastick is entering his senior year of high school and
desperate to make his mark, on the reservation and off. A rock
band—and winning Battle of the Bands—is his best shot. But things
keep getting in the way. Small matters like the lack of an actual band,
or his brother getting shot by the racist owner of a local restaurant.

Maggi Bokoni has just moved back to the reservation with her family.
She’s dying to stop making the same traditional artwork her family
sells to tourists (conceptual stuff is cooler), stop feeling out of place in
her new (old) home, and stop being treated like a child. She might like
to fall in love for the first time too.

Carson and Maggi—along with their friend Lewis—will navigate loud

protests, even louder music, and first love in this stirring novel about
coming together in a world defined by difference.

https://www.amazon.com/Give-Some-Truth-Eric-Gansworth/dp/1338143549

NO SPOILERS! IT’S ON MY NIGHT STAND!

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What can “we” do?
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 What is ProjectLIT?
Project LIT Community is a national, grassroots LITeracy movement, a network
of dedicated teachers and students who work together to:
● Flood our communities with great books
● Host monthly community-wide book clubs & literacy events in schools across the
country
● Champion & celebrate reading daily in our classrooms and communities and via
social media
● Inspire and support one another, whether it’s to share lesson plans, resources,
strategies, book recommendations, or words of encouragement
We are committed to:
● Increasing access to high-quality, diverse/inclusive books inside & outside of the
classroom
● Empowering young people to be change agents in their own communities
● Improving literacy attitudes and outcomes, one book & one conversation at a time
 2019-2020
Project Lit
YA Selections

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all 2019-2020 Project Lit Selections
Internment
by Samira Ahmed
The Astonishing Color of After
by Emily X. R. Pan
Scythe
by Neal Shusterman
Nyxia
by Scott Reintgen
 Shout
by Laurie Halse Anderson

To the barricades.
With the Fire on High
by Elizabeth Acevedo
The Marrow Thieves
by Cherie Dimaline
Barely Missing Everything
by Matt Mendez
They Both Die at the End
by Adam Silvera
Here to Stay
by Sara Farizan
Booktastings
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Placemats
LOTS of resources
Some love
for Love
Bree Newsome
James Tyson
 Dr. Bettina Love
To dismantle the educational survival complex
and to achieve educational freedom—not merely
reform—teachers, parents, and community
leaders must approach education with the
imagination, determination, boldness, and
urgency of an abolitionist. Following in the
tradition of activists like Ella Baker, Bayard Rustin,
and Fannie Lou Hamer, We Want to Do More Than
Survive introduces an alternative to traditional
modes of educational reform and expands our
ideas of civic engagement and intersectional
justice.

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