The Mirror and the Window: Empowering Readers Through Fiction
Monday 16 March 2026·2:00 pm
Award-winning authors Bobbie Pyron, Sheila Turnage and Shannon Hitchcock will discuss the power of fiction to empower marginalized kids by seeing themselves reflected in books. They will also discuss the importance of educating readers who are not marginalized, thus creating empathy.
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