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DrDonnaB
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I love to write, read, teach, learn, create, advocate, collaborate, and find moments of joy, wonder, and delight. I recently reclaimed my voice as a CSA survivor. I'm an autistic lesbian. I love kidlit, especially MG, and chaired the Huck Award (21-22).
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (19/20)
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Cover for Healing Honestly: The Messy and Magnificent Path to Overcoming Self-Blame and Self-Shame by Alisa Zipursky
December 4, 2024 at 7:09 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (19/20)
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Cover for Starfish by Lisa Fipps The cover shows a big white girl floating in a swimming pool with her arms and legs outstretched.
December 3, 2024 at 9:04 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (18/20)
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Cover for Chirp by Kate Messner The cover has a yellow background and an image of two girls jumping off a small cliff into a lake.
December 2, 2024 at 9:50 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (17/20)
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Cover for A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll Cover is blue with the stylized image of a girl wearing headphones Written on the cover are the words, "being different doesn't mean your voice doesn't count."
December 1, 2024 at 3:49 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (16/20)
#BookSky
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#Books
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#20daybookchallenge
Cover for The Babysitters Club #1:Kristy's Great Idea by Ann M. Martin The cover background is yellow. There is an image of four teen girls in a bedroom. The girls are smiling. One of them is on a pink corded phone.
November 30, 2024 at 4:04 PM
drdonnab.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (15/20)
#BookSky
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#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
Cover for Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley Th background is cream. In the bottom middle are stylized flames. An Objibwe design rises from either side of the flames. At the top, is a stylized butterfly with two faces (the same face reversed) forming the wings and looking at each other.
November 29, 2024 at 5:16 PM
drdonnab.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (13/20)
#BookSky
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#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
Cover for Banned Together: Our Fight for Readers' Rights edited by Ashley Hope Perez, illustrated by Debbie Fong Cover has a yellow background with orange flames A stack of books is in the middle with the names of all of the contributors on the spins of the books
November 28, 2024 at 3:18 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (12/20)
#BookSky
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#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
Cover for Daily Spiritual Insight: 365 Lessons for Lifetime Growth by Danielle Egnew The cover image is a photograph of Montana's beautiful mountains at sunset. The foreground includes prairie grasses and barbed wire. The background shows foothills and mountains in silhouette. The sky has pink, purple, and gray clouds.
November 27, 2024 at 1:29 PM
drdonnab.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (11/20)
#BookSky
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#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
The cover image is for Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. The light blue background shows a schedule of the front of a cathedral.
November 26, 2024 at 1:50 PM
drdonnab.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (10/20)
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Cover for The Color Purple by Alice Walker The cover has purple and burgundy designs on a dark background. There is a National book award sticker in the top left, The Great American Read sticker in the top right, and gold letters beneath the title state "winner of the Pulitzer Prize."
November 25, 2024 at 2:25 PM
drdonnab.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (9/20)
#BookSky
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#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge
Cover for We are Water Protectors, written by Carole Lindstrom, illustrated by Michaela Goade The cover has a background of multiple shades of blue that look like water. In the center, an Ojibwe girl stands tall in front of a moon with Ojibwe designs. Water surrounds her. The girl is holding a white feather.
November 24, 2024 at 5:08 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (8/20)
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Cover for I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Cover has an orange background with a black bird flying toward the top of the Cover. There is a yellow sun in the bottom left corner
November 23, 2024 at 2:36 PM
drdonnab.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (7/20)
#BookSky
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Cover for Six Women of Salem by Marilynne K. Roach The cover has a cream-colored background with a woodcut-type illustration. Above the title, one sees the bound hands and the lower bodies of three women in puritan attire. Below the title, one sees the upper bodies of three women in puritan attire.
November 22, 2024 at 3:19 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (6/20)
#BookSky
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#Books
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#20daybookchallenge
Cover for The Lonely Below by g. haron davis The background is black, with a red building and tombstones at the bottom. The red outlines of two faces are at the top.
November 21, 2024 at 8:43 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (5/20)
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Cover for Trixie Belden and the Secret of the Mansion by Julie Cambell. The background is green. One brunette white girl is helping a blonde white girl through the window of a yellow house with broken white shutters.
November 20, 2024 at 3:22 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (4/20)
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#20daybookchallenge
Cover for A Council of Dolls by Mona Susan Power The background of the cover has shades I'd dark blue. On this background is beadwork by Holly Young. The beadwork beloe the title has a central piece made up of a circle with ten petals. Symmetrical designs of two petals and a star spread out left and right of the central image. The petal on the bottom center has a different shape, opening to two small petals. On either side of this is a three-petaled flower. The image is reflected above the title with the addition of a star.
November 19, 2024 at 12:46 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (3/20)
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Book cover for Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden Two teen girls are laying a bed, holding hands, looking at each other, and smiling.
November 18, 2024 at 2:48 PM
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I spoke up thanks to the courage of those who spoke up before I did. Even though my story is different from theirs, I stand on the base of courage they created.

My own courage is co-creating a base for others, especially those who have a similar story. I don't want anyone to feel as alone as I.
White text on a black background says, "The reason speaking out is so important is that it lowers the perceived risk of those who are still silent and have something to say. Your courage matters. Your words matter. Every voice is a key to unlocking another's."
November 18, 2024 at 2:46 PM
drdonnab.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (2/20)
#BookSky
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Cover of the book Love, Violet by Charlotte Sullivan Wild and Charlene Chua. The cover features two little girls on a snowy field. The girl in the background is looking at the girl in the foreground who is carefully holding a heart-shaped Valentine.
November 17, 2024 at 1:36 PM
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I'm looking forward to reading this!

Long covid significantly limited my ability to do much. But here's a pic from a walk in a swamp.
A yellow diamond-shaped sign reads "caution: alligators and other animals can be on the trails and surrounding areas. Stay at a safe distance." A paved path is visible behind this sign, and trees with various colored leaves are visible in the distance.
November 17, 2024 at 1:28 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (1/20)
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Image shows cover of the book Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls by Kaela Rivera A Latine girl looks at the viewer from between two pillars of rock in a valley in the desert. Three black and white butterflies are on the pillars, and a skeletal being strums a guitar in the background. The image evokes power, compassion, perseverance, and life.
November 16, 2024 at 5:19 PM