Take the Mic edited by Bethany C. Morrow - HIGH

Take the Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance, edited by Bethany C. Morrow, 272 pages. Arthur Levine (Scholastic), OCTOBER 2019.  $18

Language: R (25 swears, 5 “f”); Mature Content: PG; Violence: G

BUYING ADVISORY: HS, MS - OPTIONAL

AUDIENCE APPEAL: HIGH

Take the Mic needs to be read by everyone age 10 or above, as far as I’m concerned.  Each story contains a vital truth about empowerment, about race relations, that can be read and discussed in any Language Arts classroom.  Morrow’s own As You Were was like a punch to my gut. Ahmed’s poem, Are You The Good Kind of Muslim? is also a touchstone. Even long-time members of the LGBT community can learn from Stoeve’s Parker Outside the Box.  Really – each offering should be read again and again.

Cindy, Library Teacher, MLS