Girl Forward Mentoring Program receives book

Last Sunday, we delivered 35 sets of books to the Chicago Office of Girl Forward. Girls in grades 9-12, who identify as refugees, immigrants, and asylum seekers, are given a wonderful opportunity to have a mentor through the GirlForward Mentoring Program and together they’ll be able to read and discuss these books!

Book titles we chose include:
– Dear Martin
– The Skin I’m In
– Other Words for Home
– Like Vanessa
– Hurricane Child
– Ghost Boys
– Cinder
– Ghost
– American Born Chinese
– Beyond the Bright Sea
– Anger is a Gift
– With the Fire on High
– Wishtree
– The Poet X
– The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind
– The 57 Bus
– Shout
– Amal Unbound
– A Very Large Expanse of Sea
– A Long Walk to Water
– The Stars Beneath Our Feet
– Merci Suarez Changes Gears
– El Deafo
– The Sun Is Also a Star
– Brown Girl Dreaming
– Inside Out & Back Again
– Amina’s Voice
– Wish
– I Am Not Your Perfect American Daughter

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