Nonfiction YA Books to Usher in Your New Era

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Tirzah and Erica discuss YA nonfiction books that help with different avenues of self-improvement — from becoming more informed to money management.

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News

Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell

IA judge block SF 496

Illinois officially only state to ban book bans

Books Discussed

A Quick & Easy Guide to Consent and other A Quick & Easy Guide To books

The Sum of Us (Adapted for Young Readers): How Racism Hurts Everyone by Heather McGhee

Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon

Money Out Loud: All the Financial Stuff No One Taught Us by Berna Anat, illustrated by Monique Sterling

This Book is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell

This Is What I Know About Art by Kimberly Drew, illustrated by Ashley Lukashevsky

How to Money by Jean Katzky, Kathryn Tuggle, Nina Cosford

Wait, What?: A Comic Book Guide to Relationships, Bodies, and Growing Up by Heather Corinna, illustrated by Isabella Rotman

Things We Haven’t Said edited by Erin Moulton

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