Community Reading Initiatives as a Vehicle for Promoting #OwnVoices.

American Library Association, 2003. http://www.ala.org/tools/sites/ala.org.tools/ files/content/onebook/files/onebookguide.pdf "2019 Timberland Reads T ogether, " Timberland Regional Library, accessed October 22, 2019, https://www.trl.org/TR Grande, Reyna, Reyna Grande website accessed October 22, 2019, http://reynagrande.com/. Each year in February, they invite a notable youth author to Lacey and invite kids to engage through writing and bookmark contests, author events, book discussions and more. In 2017, Timberland Reads T ogether featured author Reyna Grande and her bestselling memoir The Distance Between Us, the story of Grande's life before and after illegally immigrating to the United States from Mexico. [Extracted from the article]