Cicely Lewis

Cicely Lewis is a school librarian named the 2020 National Librarian of the Year by School Library Journal and Scholastic, a 2019 Library Journal Mover and Shaker and the 2019 National Teacher Award for Lifelong Readers by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and Penguin Random House (PRH). In 2017, she started the Read Woke challenge in response to the shootings of young unarmed black people, the repeal of DACA and the lack of diversity in young adult literature. When she is not reading, can find Lewis writing for her bi-monthly column in the School Library Journal where she shares her book recommendations.

Posts By Cicely Lewis

CRT

I Will Not Remain Silent When Books Are Being Banned

Back in January, when I read this headline in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “Movement would ban LGBTQ books, online materials from school libraries,” I felt like I was in an episode of the “The...

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