RAISE THE FUTURE

All the small fish were scared. Swimmy had a different idea.

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She was nine. She marched. She went to jail. Birmingham listened.

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The morning everything changed.

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Be true. Be different. Be you. That's the whole book.

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An immigrant's journey. No words. Every feeling.

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Sadness arrives at the door. You can let it in.

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The farmer sleeps. The animals form a punk band. Obviously.

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Three farmers vs. one fox. The fox feeds his whole community.

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The wolf tells his side. He just needed sugar.

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Your name is yours to keep

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She couldn't read. One teacher noticed. Everything changed.

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The coat wore out. He made something better. Again and again.

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They save every coin in a jar. For one perfect chair.

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Stars on bellies. A machine. Nobody wins but the man with the machine.

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An alphabet book about Palestine. They tried to ban it.

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A spill. A tear. A hole. All of them become something better.

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A seagull drops paint on his roof. He decides to go with it.

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She was unkind to the new girl. The new girl stopped coming. Now what.

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Fry bread is history. Fry bread is family. Fry bread is us.

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Her name is too long. Until her father explains where it came from.

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Why does grandma keep her hair long? Because they made her cut it.

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Every bird wants a touch of Blackbird's beautiful color.

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On a hill in Arizona, children built a real town out of nothing.

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A truer Thanksgiving, told from the source.

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A tiny voice takes on giants.

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Truth sorting for tiny humans.

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Kindness outlasts coolness.

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When comfort sounds like silence.

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Tiny thief. Big trouble.

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A love letter to seeing yourself.

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The ABCs of raising hell.

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Kids, courage, and the sound of change.

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Fairy tale, feminist edition.

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A protest in watercolor.

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The original eco-punk.

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Gratitude with a side of grit.

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Bravery starts at the lunch table.

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Curiosity is the new rebellion.

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Big ideas start small—and loud.

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Joy in full, unapologetic color.

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Imagination is the real revolution.

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Woke from day one.

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Her parents died. She counts by 7s. She finds her people.

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They dig holes to build character. He suspects otherwise.

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Every adult fails them. Count Olaf nearly wins. Thirteen times.

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A bored boy drives through a tollbooth. The other side is worth it.

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He started a lawn business. The economy had other plans.

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She earned the scholarship. She's tired of being the diversity program.

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His dad sank the boat. Now Noah has to prove why it deserved it.

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A funny family road trip to Birmingham. Then 1963 arrives.

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He walked across Sudan to survive. She walks for water every day.

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Taliban took her father. She became a boy to save her family.

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Unlearning racism, one page at a time.

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A genius child. A monstrous headmistress. Justice delivered.

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Five kids. One factory. Four very satisfying eliminations.

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He invented a word. The whole town tried to stop him.

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One hundred women. One hundred ways to live.

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Toothpaste costs too much. He makes his own. Then sells it.

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A girl visits her Palestinian grandmother. No shared language. Only love.

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A pancake restaurant wants to pave over owl habitat. Three kids say no.

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The Nazis are rounding up Jews. Her family hides her best friend.

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Iranian American in 1979. Her country is on the news. Not in a good way.

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Saigon falls. She ends up in Alabama. In verse.

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A gorilla lives in a mall. He paints. He makes a plan.

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His dad was a football star. Something is changing. He watches.

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A boy crashes from the sky. He makes two friends immediately.

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An empty lot in Cleveland. Thirteen strangers. One garden.

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Scholarship kid. Cuban family. Grandfather forgetting. Nobody talking.

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He loves reading. He hates reading club. He starts his own.

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She grew up in a funeral home. She thought she understood death.

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She unleashed a demon. Turns out she's a reincarnated Pandava.

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The gang killed his cousin. Now he has to cross the desert.

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He doesn't know what he is yet. There's a club for that.

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An awkward girl, a missing father, and a wrinkle in time.

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His family is losing their home again. His imaginary cat has opinions.

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Cuba's wars for independence. A healer. The forest. In verse.

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She wrote everything down. Then they read it.

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Dream big, even from behind the counter.

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DIY your identity.

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Middle school, race, and real talk.

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Identity, courage, and bathroom politics.

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Heartfelt survival with metal parts.

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The Gulf Coast drowned. He strips tankers to survive. Then a choice.

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Fish biology as art. Juan Perón. M.C. Escher. Obviously.

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1954. Chinatown. A lesbian bar. Everything to lose.

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They said you have no history. He built one.

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Three refugees. Three crises. Seventy-six years apart. One truth.

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Small town. Local legend. Everyone believes. He almost does too.

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Her thoughts spiral without end. This is what OCD actually is.

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One night. New York. Two people who speak in music.

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Earth demolished. Universe indifferent. The answer is 42.

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A Māori girl. Ancient traditions. She's the one they've been waiting for.

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A refugee boyhood, in pictures

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She can see the future. One death could save many. Her choice.

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A reservation kid goes to the white school. Everyone loses.

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The internet is inside their heads. One girl tries to break free.

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Wrong place, wrong time. Now DHS is watching him. He fights back.

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A Palestinian American girl moves to Jerusalem. Falls for a Jewish boy.

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Southern California runs out of water. On a Tuesday. Everything breaks.

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Nazi Germany. A girl steals books. Death is watching.

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Black. Trans. Never been in love. This is the summer that changes.

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Her mother died. She became a bird. Leigh goes to Taiwan to find her.

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Magic was stolen. She's going to bring it back.

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Her mother controls her body. Poetry gives her somewhere to be loud.

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Twins. Three years. Something broke them apart. Both of them tell it.

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His mom left for America when he was eleven. He went to find her.

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He stayed to help after Katrina. They arrested him instead.

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Four misfits run for student government. Their platform: stop the names.

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A summer journal. A strange cousin. The Odyssey. Everything connects.

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A perfect society. No pain, no color, no memory. One boy finds out why.

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Her stepfather sold her. She thought she was getting a job.

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Anonymous notes predict the future. She has to figure out why.

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She came from Haiti. Her mother didn't make it through. Detroit is waiting.

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A girl on Mango Street. She's already planning her escape.

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Half-Iranian, depressed, going to Iran. He finds himself there.

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Stay gold or start fires.

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Hope’s the hardest crop to grow.

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Family, fury, and Mississippi mud.

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She wrote about the sea. Then she wrote Silent Spring. This came first.

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They lost the farm. California promised work. It lied.

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El Paso, 1987. Two boys. The secrets take all summer.

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His private emails got found. His timeline got stolen.

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Three stories. One argument about what assimilation costs.

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She grew up in the cult. Then the FBI came. Then the fire.

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The glamour. The breakdown. The bell jar descending.

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A queer relationship. Abuse with no language for it. She names it.

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Thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit.

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Two boys break a kissing record. The AIDS generation watches.

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1942. Fourteen Japanese American kids. One executive order.

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He grew up undocumented. His parents were deported. He stayed.

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Her perfect sister died. Now Julia has to be the good one.

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Letters that bleed and bloom.

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Democracy outside. Dictatorship inside. Same man.

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Left Nigeria. Learned she was Black in America.

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Internment meets ink and defiance.

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Long Beach. 150 students. 150 diaries. All of it true.

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The marketing industry studied your childhood. To sell to it.

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White discomfort about race. Why it happens. What to do.

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Debt is 5,000 years old. It was always about power.

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A Palestinian family. Four generations of loss.

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Nine lives. Nine trees. One argument about what we are destroying.

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A populist wins in 1936. America becomes a dictatorship. Step by step.

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He summoned a ghost to prove himself. The ghost won't leave.

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It's worse than they're telling you. Here's the full picture.

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An all-Black town built paradise. Then attacked the women next door.

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An American in Paris. He loves a man. He can't let himself.

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A graphic memoir about not fitting. The most banned book in America.

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Black Panther. Political prisoner. Escaped to Cuba. Her own words.

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Mass incarceration is Jim Crow by another name. Here's the evidence.

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Essays on writing, identity, AIDS, and learning to see clearly.

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Chinese myths. California childhood. The silences in between.

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She wants blue eyes. Morrison shows exactly how that happens.

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His brother was shot. He has a gun. The elevator goes down.

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Three sisters who fought Trujillo. One survived to remember.

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Doors appear that lead to other countries. They leave. Everything changes.

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In Kerala, the wrong people love each other. Everything breaks.

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An Iranian family in California. Dad is an eternal optimist.

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The blueprint for nonviolent revolution.

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Speak up, even when it shakes.

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Two voices, one brutal truth.

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Rebellion drawn in black ink.

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Silence gets loud.

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Bravery looks like a schoolgirl with a book.

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History’s receipts for injustice.

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The house is bigger inside. The novel proves it with footnotes.

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Brooklyn's underworld. No exits. No comfort. All true.

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Punk literature at its most uncompromising. Not for everyone.

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A planet with no fixed gender. An envoy tries to understand it.

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She's executing an estate. She may have found a secret. Or lost her mind.

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Misogyny is enforcement, not emotion.

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The internet, before it sold out.

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Anarchist utopia with receipts.

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Classroom meets liberation front.

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Office life, unmasked as performance art.

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Poetry with teeth and a megaphone.

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Radical hope as resistance strategy.

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Equality, but make it obvious.

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Kindergarten works. Stop graduating out of it.

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The having of wonderful ideas. That's the whole point of education.

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Children are born knowing how to learn. Here's what that looks like.

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Children don't fail school. School fails children. Here's the proof.

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The woman who carried Reggio forward. In her own words.

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Education should produce crap detectors. Here's how.

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Built for the Industrial Revolution. Still running that program.

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They sold a Nazi tank to build a school. It changed everything.

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Play is not preparation for life. It is life. Winnicott proves it.

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