Read by N'Jameh Camara, Jose Carrera, Dean Flanagan, Angel Romero, Toshi Widoff-Woodson, Jacqueline Woodson, and Mikelle Wright-Matos. Includes Q&A with Jacqueline Woodson and her son Jackson-Leroi Widoff-Woodson.
Summary:
It all starts when six kids have to meet for a weekly chat--by themselves, with no adults to listen in. There, in the room they dub the ARTT Room (short for "A Room to Talk"), they discover it's safe to talk about what's bothering them--everything from Esteban's father's deportation and Hayley's father's incarceration to Amari's fears of racial profiling and Ashton's adjustment to his changing family fortunes. When the six are together, they can express the feelings and fears they have to hide from the world. And together, they can grow braver and more ready for the rest of their lives.
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