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"With a mix of fact and fiction WAKE NOW IN THE FIRE tells a deeply true and urgent story of student activism in the face of institutional censorship and cowardice. I was swept along with these smart, passionate teens and recognized my own fight in their story. Dapier and Dungo have put together a prescient narrative face to this book ban moment. Read this for a playbook on how to defend books, education, and free speech."
-Maia Kobabe
Author and illustrator of GENDER QUEER
- NPR Best Book of 2021 -
- Junior Library Guild
Gold Selection -
- Kirkus Starred Review -
- Finalist, Ezra Jack Keats Award
For Writing -
- A 2023 Illinois Reads Selection -
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