These themes will vary! It could be based off of some book mail I just received, pop culture, something personal to me, a headline from the news, a trend I noticed when I was buying books for my library system, etc. I hope you stick around to see all the themes and book recs I come up with!
Today’s Theme: Stroll to the Polls!
Today’s the Day! It’s Election Day, your last chance to cast your vote. Remember I asked y’all for only one thing, to make sure you go out and vote. I hope that you remember that the President isn’t the only thing on the ballot. And lastly, remember that nothing is going to change immediately. But we’ll need someone that’s willing to make those changes.
Anyways, this was the obvious choice for this week’s Two for Tuesday. (And crazy this is my first non-fiction one!) In this first one, it talks about the fight that many different groups of people have fought to gain the right to vote. From those that are Black and Brown to the Suffrage movement, it’s all covered. I think what I liked most about it is the fact that it even covered the intersectionality of women of color. The right to vote in America did not come lightly even though there are so many people out there trying to make it seem like it did.
This one I haven’t read yet, but I’m on the hold list for it. It seems like this one is going to be more of a textbook kind of thing. It explains different things within the government, like how student loans work and things like the federal government and where their budget comes from. I wanted to highlight this because at the very least, the federal budget and knowing what certain federal departments do is something that people should know so when they go to the polls they can make an INFORMED DECISION. I thought this might be good to have because people not voting, or getting their information from Facebook or Wikipedia, is how misinformation spreads. Even when I was in library school we were warned of using sites that are people run because anyone anywhere can input drama and deceptive things. So by recommending this to y’all I hope you pick it up and look at some of the things it covers. You just might learn something. (The author of this also wrote Votes of Confidence that’s about elections, but I wanted some variety. But please also check out that one!)
**Also, please remember that I am a YA librarian so these are both YA non-fiction. I read (or added it to my TBR) in the hopes that they will ask and get curious about it. And if there’s any adult out there that might find these easier to understand, I hope they might pick these up to get a better grasp on the right info. **
Well, there you go! Here I’m just going to talk about why I grouped these two books together. I hope you enjoyed a look at this small part of the books. For a full synopsis of the book or to add it to your TBR, click the picture and it will take you to their Storygraph. The link on the caption will take you to it’s Goodreads.
What about you? Have you voted? Are you going today? Let me know in the comments!