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To: My kid cousins, who more than deserve to go on adventures with characters who look like them
From: Jordan Ifueko, author of Raybearer

To: All my friends who care about the future, and how we can gently, and with compassion for each other, reconcile with the past to create a better world
From: Your pal Rene Denfeld, author of The Butterfly Girl

To: My friends who are feeling overwhelmed by the terribleness of the world
From: Your friend who is a literal tree-hugger, Sarah Mirk, author of Guantanamo Voices

To: Survivors of grief, ocean lovers, surfers and skateboarders
From: Justin Hocking, author of The Great Floodgates of the Underworld

To: The people who are always asking me: What is an engrossing novel by a new author I may not have read?
From: Margaret Atwood, author of The Testaments

To: The man willing to take me and my stomach to Piemonte, to Umbria, to Napoli — without leaving the apartment and getting on a plane
From: Matthew Ortile, author of The Groom Will Keep His Name

To: Friends who are leaving, arriving, or just have a lot to unpack
From: John Patrick Green, author of InvestiGators

To: Magic-minded pals who dig sparkling speculative fiction, expansive gender identities, and thoughtful occulture
From: Pam Grossman, author of Waking the Witch

To: My friends who are Civil War history buffs
From: April Henry, author of The Girl in the White Van

To: My sister-friends in need of comfort and healing, and a reminder that "this too shall pass"
From: Renée Watson, author of Piecing Me Together

To: All of my friends trying to reconnect with their families—near and far—during a tough holiday season
From: Evette Dionne, author of Lifting as We Climb

Jaime Schmidt:

To: To those getting their hands dirty to cultivate their passions
From: Jaime Schmidt, author of Supermaker

To: For your aggrieved bestie — full of torpor, sloppy desire for bad guys, rolling blackouts of isolation, and lost time
From: Sophia Shalmiyev, author of Mother Winter

To: All the activists in my life working toward fairness and justice, and those looking to learn lessons from the past
From: Aron Nels Steinke, author of Mr. Wolf's Class

Chelsea Bieker: The Shame
by Makenna Goodman

To: The mothers out there playing alllllll the roles in 2020 and need a little escape
From: Chelsea Bieker, author of Godshot

Liz Prato: She Said
by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey

To: Warriors who want a playbook on how women and the Fourth Estate can smash the patriarchy
From: Liz Prato, author of Volcanoes, Palm Trees, and Privilege, who thinks journalists kick ass

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