'We Read Too' app connects young readers of color with books they can relate to
 

'We Read Too' app connects young readers of color with books they can relate to
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In high school, Kaya Thomas was a self-proclaimed "nerdy black girl." She loved books, but she often felt like the literary world didn't love her back.

"As a teen, I was feeling erased by the books I was reading at my libraries and at school," Thomas says. "The characters were never anything like myself."

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Libraries were filled with pages upon pages of white characters going on adventures dreamed up by white authors. Thomas, however, was looking for books that made her feel seen — and she knew others were, too.* Read more...

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