vted Reads: Pride, with Meg Allison by The 21st Century Classroom

For this episode, Jeanie Phillips is joined by Vermont rockstar librarian Meg Alison, in discussing Ibi Zoboi's Pride: a Pride and Prejudice Remix. We talk about gentrification, agency, and the amazing power of spoken word poetry, we give a shout out to #DisruptTexts and ask teachers to think critically about the books they teach. Who is represented in their pages? And who isn't?

And how did Zoboi's novel make one of our librarians think more deeply about a hotly contested road project in tiny Brandon, Vermont? Grab your six-dollar maple lattes, listeners, and find out.

A full transcript is available at https://wp.me/p4r2oE-4LA