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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Monday, October 19, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">CONTACTS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.75pt"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black">Farrell Howe | Marketing & Communications Manager</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.75pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black">(269) 553-7879 |
<a href="mailto:farrellh@kpl.gov">farrellh@kpl.gov</a><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.75pt"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black">Karen Trout | Community Engagement Librarian<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Kalamazoo Public Library Selects Best-selling Author Jacqueline Woodson for the 2021 Reading Together Author<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Kalamazoo, MI–Monday, October 19, 2020. Kalamazoo Public Library is honored to announce the chosen 2021 Reading Together author, Jacqueline Woodson! Woodson will host two virtual Meet the Author events on Wednesday, March 10, 2021. The
first at 3 pm will be a craft talk, and at 7 pm, the keynote speech: “The Power of Story.”
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<p class="MsoNormal">With hopes of bringing our community closer together in the midst of the social isolation brought on by COVID-19, Kalamazoo Public Library has decided to approach Reading Together a little differently for 2021. Instead of choosing one title,
aimed primarily at adult readers, we have selected one author whose body of work spans all ages, from picture books, to middle grade and young adult fiction, to adult novels. That is why we have chosen National Book Award and four-time Newbery Honor Winner,
MacArthur Fellow and bestselling author, <a href="https://www.prhspeakers.com/speaker/jacqueline-woodson" target="_blank">Jacqueline Woodson</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#58595B">About the Author:</span></strong><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#58595B"><br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#221E1F">Jacqueline Woodson is the author of more than two dozen award-winning books for young adults, middle graders, and children; among her many accolades, she is a four-time Newbery Honor winner, a three-time
National Book Award finalist, and a two-time Coretta Scott King Award winner. She was named Young People’s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation in 2015 and was also named the 2018 Ambassador for Young People’s Literature by the Library of Congress. Woodson
was also the 2020 recipient of the Hans Christian Andersen Award.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#221E1F">Woodson’s <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">New York Times-</span></em>bestselling memoir, <a href="https://www.kpl.gov/catalog/item/?i=ent://SD_ILS/0/SD_ILS:1642382"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:blue;text-decoration:none">Brown
Girl Dreaming</span></em></a>, was the 2014 National Book Award Winner and also a recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor Award, the NAACP Image Award, and the Sibert Honor Award. Her first adult novel in twenty years, <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">New
York Times</span></em> bestselling novel <a href="https://www.kpl.gov/catalog/item/?i=ent://SD_ILS/0/SD_ILS:1744939"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:blue;text-decoration:none">Another Brooklyn</span></em></a> (Harper/Amistad), was a
2016 National Book Award Finalist. In 2018, Woodson published <a href="https://www.kpl.gov/catalog/item/?i=ent://SD_ILS/0/SD_ILS:1807651"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:blue;text-decoration:none">Harbor Me</span></em></a>, her first
middle-grade novel since National Book Award winner <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Brown Girl Dreaming. Harbor Me </span></em>and <a href="https://www.kpl.gov/catalog/item/?i=ent://SD_ILS/0/SD_ILS:1807349"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:blue;text-decoration:none">The
Day You Begin</span></em></a>, Woodson’s picture book that was published the same year, were both <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">New York Times </span></em>bestsellers. <a href="https://www.kpl.gov/catalog/item/?i=ent://SD_ILS/0/SD_ILS:1835237"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:blue;text-decoration:none">Red
at the Bone</span></em></a>, released in September 2019, was a <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">New York Times</span></em> bestseller and Notable Book of the Year, an NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) finalist
for outstanding literary work in fiction.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#221E1F">Woodson’s most recent book released in September 2020, <a href="https://www.kpl.gov/catalog/item/?i=ent://SD_ILS/0/SD_ILS:1852993"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:blue;text-decoration:none">Before
the Ever After</span></em></a>, explores how a family moves forward when their glory days have passed and the cost of professional sports on Black bodies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#221E1F">We encourage our 2021 Reading Together participants to explore <a href="https://www.kpl.gov/search/Jacqueline+Woodson/">all of Woodson’s work</a> but we will be primarily focused on the following titles:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#221E1F"><a href="https://www.kpl.gov/catalog/item/?i=ent://SD_ILS/0/SD_ILS:230992"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:blue;text-decoration:none">The Other Side</span></em></a> – picture
book<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#221E1F"><a href="https://www.kpl.gov/catalog/item/?i=ent://SD_ILS/0/SD_ILS:1807349">The Day You Begin</a>/El Día En Que Descubres Quién Eres! </span></em><span style="color:#221E1F">(available
soon!) – picture book available in English and Spanish<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#221E1F"><a href="https://www.kpl.gov/catalog/item/?i=ent://SD_ILS/0/SD_ILS:1807651"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:blue;text-decoration:none">Harbor Me</span></em></a> – middle-grade
fiction<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#221E1F"><a href="https://www.kpl.gov/catalog/item/?i=ent://SD_ILS/0/SD_ILS:1642382"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:blue;text-decoration:none">Brown Girl Dreaming</span></em> </a>– middle
grade/young adult fiction<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#221E1F"><a href="https://www.kpl.gov/catalog/item/?i=ent://SD_ILS/0/SD_ILS:1744939"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:blue;text-decoration:none">Another Brooklyn</span></em></a> – young
adult/adult fiction<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#221E1F"><a href="https://www.kpl.gov/catalog/item/?i=ent://SD_ILS/0/SD_ILS:1835237"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:blue;text-decoration:none">Red at the Bone</span></em></a> – adult
novel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#58595B">About Reading Together:</span></strong><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#58595B"><br>
</span></b><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#221E1F">The purpose of </span></span><em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#221E1F">Reading Together</span></em><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#221E1F"> is
to build a stronger community with deeper connections through the common experience of reading the same book and exploring its themes together. When we do that, we engage and learn, not only about ourselves but more importantly about each other and the world
around us.</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#221E1F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#221E1F">By experiencing the same book, hearing the author of that work speak right here in Kalamazoo, and examining the book’s themes through a local lens, we are able to embrace our similarities and differences from a common
point of reference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#221E1F">Very simply, when we read together, we grow together.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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