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What if a school’s mascot is seen as racist, but not by everyone? In Mascot, a compelling middle-grade novel in verse, two best-selling BIPOC authors tackle this hot-button issue.

Best-selling author Traci Sorell writes inclusive, award-winning historical and contemporary fiction and nonfiction in a variety of formats for young people. She is a two-time Sibert Medal and Orbis Pictus honoree and an award-winning audiobook narrator and producer. Eight of her books have received awards from the American Indian Library Association. Other accolades include Jane Addams Children’s Book Honor Award, Charlotte Huck Honor Award, Septima Clark Women in Literature Honor Award, Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor, International Literacy Association’s Social Justice Literature Award Winner, and many Best-of and Notables lists.

Copies of Mascot are available from City of Asylum Bookstore.