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A young Black girl pens a love letter to libraries and books, powerfully expressing the need to see herself represented in stories. From the author that brought you M Is for Melanin . " A rousing call to action for more racially diverse children's literature." - Kirkus Reviews , STARRED REVIEW There was just this one thing, this nagging suspicion, that I didn't meet the criteria for a heroine' s condition. In the books that I read, an absence of melanin was a clear omission. A voracious young re