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Gr 1–3—In a warm celebration of community spirit, Pritchard and Alko look back to a devastating 1966 fire in the library of New York's Jewish Theological Seminary and the ensuing collective effort that rescued 170,000 surviving but drenched books. Paired to an oracular narrative—"The charred shelves cradled hope/ hope/ hope. /Swollen pages, keep our stories alive"—the illustrations depict multiracial lines of students, n...Log In or Sign Up to Read More