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How I became a basketball fan Gene Luen Yang shares how reading Outside the Paint by Kathleen Yep helped him become a basketball fan.
Matt de la Peña: My experiences as a struggling reader Award-winning author Matt de la Peña recalls his struggles as a reader and how that impacted his view of himself.
Reading for your life Our 2011 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature explains why she chose “Read for Your Life” as her platform.
Walter Dean Myers: A Writer's Story Author Walter Dean Myers (Harlem) talks about a discovery he made in childhood: that books are a path to a world beyond our own neighborhoods.
Creating new images Christopher Myers doesn’t like the way that black people are portrayed in the media.
Adapting to different realities As a young boy, Laurence Yep couldn’t find books that spoke to his cultural identity or day-to-day reality, but he could enjoy the strange, new worlds of fantasy and science fiction.
Words they can relate to Walter Dean Myers explains why he thinks African-American readers relate so well to his books.
