Staff Book Recommendations: Phoebe Schlanger
November is National Literacy Month! To celebrate, we asked our staff to recommend their favorite equity books. Here’s what they said…
by Phoebe Schlanger
Finance Manager, MAEC
I want to start by saying I am not an educator. For my book recommendations, I’m going to borrow two books that my son had to read in school (and I also enjoyed). 
The first one is Persepolis. It’s a graphic novel about a young girl in Iran during the revolution. It is incredibly powerful, and it was made into a movie. The other book is Esperanza Rising, about a girl who is a Mexican immigrant. Both books gave my son and his classmates exposure to other experiences that they might not have otherwise considered. I think students of all ages benefit from reading books written from and about diverse 
perspectives.
