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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-
-2023 Illinois Reads Selection-
-About Jarrett-
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