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“Having fun isn’t hard, when you’ve got a library card!” - Arthur Read
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Google is your friend! Search it online, bookstores near you will pop up (:
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It’s very good! It’s the story of Theodore/Armpit after the conclusion of “Holes.” Not Disney at all, it’s the legend- Louis Sachar 🙏🏽
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MY HEART 💔
The people, the children are being failed. They see the decisions being made as they, the people, don’t matter. THEY MATTER, THEY MATTER, THEY MATTER ❤️🩹
Heartbreaking
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SPRINTS to listen
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TOTALLY worth it! Not a tough sell, honestly (well, shouldn’t be a tough sell!). It takes a passionate library leader imploring their burnout library staff to recognize that YES, they deserve better, the best. But while they work together for better, they work towards belonging for their students (:
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Such partnerships do exist! It’s wonderful, but it comes down to whether or not the public librarian is willing to put in the work AND if they have a supportive manager in that mission. We’re in a place where we must come up with solutions, but one day the school librarians will thrive with access ❤️🩹
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The only time I’ve seen books cause harm is from an excited little library kid choosing one & throwing it at their library grown-up with joyful abandon 💚
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I just happen to love books, love libraries. I am thankful for what they’ve done for my life. They are healing, they’ve done so much for so many of us. I wish we would give the books peace, and let them be.
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Believing we belong in books means we are more likely to believe we belong in the world. It is how we believe, as helpers, that we can help the world.
That’s what library kids will do, help! They just need the books to show the rest of us ✨
I am no expert on books or book bans.
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Because all sorts of stories keep us going, they insist we belong. They are the author and illustrator’s hard work, work that tells us, “Oh! You DO belong. See for yourself!” The school library is often the only place library kids have an opportunity to be library kids.
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But that decision shouldn’t be the one made for all kids. Another kid may need that book, that story, that friend. We will always strive for books to sit on the shelves of libraries, school and public. All sorts of books for all sorts of people.
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Those banning the books are so afraid of the books, of the stories and I will never, ever truly understand why. Books are many of our first friends. They certainly were for me. A grown-up and their kid should indeed be able to determine when that particular kid might be ready for a book.
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For the broken soul escaping reality with “Chronicles of Narnia”, the bookworm seeing themselves in “Bud, Not Buddy” for the first time, the kid discovering Miles Morales in a graphic novel, the kid smiling ear to ear while the librarian shows them the cover of “Front Desk”.
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It tells them they do not deserve to feel seen. Banning books eliminates any chance of book joy.
You see, the only agenda books have is to be there for whomever needs their particular story.
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They often can’t afford books, they have very few, if any, books at home. Thus, they rely upon the school, the school library & librarians. It is where access to books and literacy begins and ends.
Banning books tells kids books aren’t important. It tells them they are not part of history.
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Grown-ups are exhausted from working, from worrying, from being. They’re busy making dinner, sleeping to do it all over again the next day. They long for their kids to be literate, to love reading.
Grown-ups long for their kids to feel they belong when they’re reading books.
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Let the record show, the reason I haven’t seen “Guardians of the Galaxy” isn’t because it looks boring, it looks amazing! I’ve heard phenomenal things. It has just been too long 😅
Eventually, I’ll watch Marvel movies in timeline order and will have seen it 🫡
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I’ve been waiting to read this one for SO long!!
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It’s not broken! Y’all are so supportive that the campaign automatically ended so they’re regrouping (:
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Glad you all like my shirt! I do, too! 😊 It was gifted to me by the wonderful Connecticut Library Association 📚 You never know, maybe they’ll find a way to create more shirts to raise funds for libraries in the near future! ✨
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Stay tuned (:
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It’s for everyone! (:
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“I'm going to be a sponge. I'm going to be so hands-on. I'm going to be an extra set of hands. I'm going to do everything that I can to help this team, this staff, all these departments that go into building a championship culture. I'm going to do what I can to help that.”
-Autumn Lockwood
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In 2019, Lockwood gained her first NFL experience as an intern for the Atlanta Falcons' strength staff during organized team activities. She earned her master's degree in sports management from East Tennessee State.
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Autumn Lockwood knows football. The daughter of a collegiate football coach, she’s been attending games since she was born. Autumn Lockwood was named an associate performance coach by the Philadelphia Eagles in 2023. She joined the team as a strength and conditioning associate in 2022.
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