Freedom Friends’ Book Club

From Syria to Cincinnati: ‘Other Words for Home’

November 22, 2021 Julie Coppens 0

Our last Freedom Friends Book Club pick of 2021 is Other Words for Home, the award-winning bestseller by Cincinnati native Jasmine Warga. Meet Jude, the […]

Indigenous History, Boldly Drawn

October 29, 2021 Julie Coppens 0

Our November pick is Gord Hill’s 500 YEARS OF RESISTANCE COMIC BOOK, a groundbreaking illustrated history of Indigenous activism and resistance in the Americas, from […]

Different, Disabled, But ‘Unbroken’

September 30, 2021 Julie Coppens 0

Our October selection is Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens, edited by Marieke Nijkamp, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of This Is Where […]

Class Warfare in an Age of Eco-Collapse

August 27, 2021 Julie Coppens 0

By Jordan Polk, Democracy & Me intern Our September selection is WANT, the 2017 YA sci-fi hit written by Taiwanese-American novelist Cindy Pon. Pon is […]

‘Keep Fighting’

August 3, 2021 Julie Coppens 0

Our August book selection is Take the Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance, featuring tales written by multi-talented authors such as Bethany C. Morrow (who […]

Out of Africa: A Magical Epic

July 12, 2021 Julie Coppens 0

Our July selection is CHILDREN OF BLOOD AND BONE, the 2018 young adult fantasy novel by Nigerian-American novelist Tomi Adeyemi. Adeyemi’s debut novel (first in […]

Escaping from Home: Using Historical Fiction to Teach Social Studies and Language Arts

July 4, 2021 David Childs 0

By Dr. David J. Childs, D.D., Ph.D.Northern Kentucky University Introduction: Writing a Historical Fiction NovelMy colleague and I co-taught an upper level undergraduate teaching methods […]

‘I want to cast a spell where a Black trans girl is never hurt.’

May 28, 2021 Julie Coppens 0

Our June selection is PET, by Akwaeke Emezi, a Nigerian-born nonbinary author and activist. Set in the imagined American town of Lucille, a utopian place […]

Asian Legends Reimagined

May 3, 2021 Julie Coppens 0

A dangerous smile. A never-ending war. A vampire diary full of incrimminating receipts. A feast for ghosts, prepared with love. Our May selection, A Thousand […]

‘There is power in the word’: The Poet X

April 1, 2021 Julie Coppens 0

Unhide-able, unheard—until, through the power of her poetry, unleashed. Meet Xiomara Batista, heroine of our April selection, The Poet X, Elizabeth Acevedo’s debut novel-in-verse. With […]