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Lit Squad S1:E1 — The role youth literature plays in exposing kids to diverse environments

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There's a lot of talk about the kinds of books students should and should not be reading, and what books kids should have access to in libraries. At the same time, there are more books being published that deal with issues of race, gender and sexual orientation. KJZZ's The Show’s talks to the authors of some of those books. For our first episode, host Mark Brodie chatted with Tom Leveen and Jewell Parker Rhodes. Leveen is the award-winning author of nine books, while Rhodes is a New York Times best-selling author and professor at Arizona State University.