Meet the Activist: Caroline D.
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Meet the Activist: Caroline D.
Caroline D. is a high school student who loves taking hikes, swimming, playing volleyball, and spending time with her family!
Caroline D. is a rising high school sophomore who loves taking hikes, swimming, playing volleyball, and spending time with her family! As part of Novelly’s SPEAK! Activist Network, Caroline immersed herself in coursework on the freedom to read movement and made plans to diversify bookshelves in California.
Caroline is planning a dynamic social media campaign designed to promote the goals of the SPEAK! Activist Network. Thank you for fighting for our freedom to read, Caroline! ✨
If you’re in the Bay Area, consider coming out to hear Caroline speak on Monday, July 17th at Novelly’s upcoming Free to Read Event at The Ruby. As parents, policymakers, teachers and librarians battle it out, how can we better listen to youth voices? How do students feel about censorship in the classroom and the decline of creative writing, visual arts, and performing arts opportunities in education? Caroline and fellow Novelly alum Harnoor Nagra will offer their thoughts in a discussion facilitated by Novelly’s Founder and Executive Director Anna Gabriella Casalme.
Speak up on social media
Our partner organization, We Need Diverse Books, launched a new Book Save Lives campaign in December 2022. The campaign employs a three-pronged strategy to directly address book bans and champion diverse titles.
The Books Save Lives Grant will allocate up to $10,000 for schools to purchase diverse titles for their libraries and classrooms. We will prioritize grants for schools located in areas most impacted by book bans and censorship.
Working with the grassroots organizations in battleground states, WNDB will produce educational resources to bolster their on-the-ground efforts, arrange author visits, and support media specialists and educators as they navigate book bans. WNDB will produce a guide for educators to help them conduct conversations around banned books, and encourage literacy.
Finally, WNDB will offer support to diverse authors in the form of book buys, publicity for challenged titles, and paid school visits, all to bolster income.
📷 Join their social media campaign! → Take a photo of yourself with the book that saved your life and share its impact in your life. Post your text and image to your social media accounts with the hashtag #BooksSaveLives.
Let's show the power of a story and why the book bans must stop!
Join the freedom to read movement
→ Explore the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)’s Intellectual Freedom Center.
→ Read and share a piece from the Novelly library that would likely be banned or challenged.
→ If you are an 8th-12th grade English Language Arts teacher interested in amplifying diverse youth authors in your classroom, submit your interest here.
Diverse Youth Voices. Amplified.
Novelly is on a mission to get e-books by underrepresented youth published and taught in the English classroom, so that every student can feel seen and inspired by what they read in school.