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BKLYN: Books to Bring With You For the Voting Line

This booklist features books to help occupy yourself or your kids while you wait in line to vote during this important election season. This list was created by a librarian with the Brooklyn Public Library. Would you like your own personalized list of reading suggestions? Visit Bklyn BookMatch here: bklynlibrary.org/bookmatch

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Lifting as we climb : black women's battle for the ballot box
Dionne, Evette, author.
Format: eBook

An eye-opening book that tells the important, overlooked story of black women as a force in the suffrage movement--when fellow suffragists did not accept them as equal partners in the struggle.

Thank you for voting [electronic resource] : the maddening, enlightening, inspiring truth about voting in America
Smith, Erin Geiger.
Format: eBook

The story of the American women who demanded, fought for, and finally won the right to vote

Show-how guides: paper airplanes [electronic resource] : The 11 essential planes everyone should know!.
Zoo, Keith.
Format: eBook

Want to fly? Keith Zoo's Show-How Guides: Paper Airplanes gives you the know-how. Through illustrated, step-by-step tutorials on eleven essential models (plus key tips and tricks), you'll quickly and easily master folding and flying skills.

Show-how guides: knots [electronic resource] : The 20 essential knots everyone should know!.
Zoo, Keith.
Format: eBook

Want to hitch, twist, and tie? Keith Zoo's Show-How Guides: Knots gives you the know-how. Through illustrated, step-by-step tutorials on 20 essential knots (plus key tips and tricks), you'll quickly and easily master the art of knot tying. What are you waiting for? Let's start bending, binding, and looping!

Fake mustache
by Tom Angleberger ; illustrated by Jen Wang.
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Lenny Flem Jr. is the only one standing between his evil-genius best friend, Casper, and world domination as Casper uses a spectacularly convincing fake mustache and the ability to hypnotize to rob banks, amass a vast fortune, and run for president.

The campaign [electronic resource].
Sales, Leila.
Format: eBook

For 12-year-old Maddie Polansky, the only good part of school is art class. And though she's never paid much attention to politics, when she learns that the frontrunner for mayor of her city intends to cut funding for the arts in public schools, the political suddenly becomes very personal. So Maddie persuades her babysitter, Janet, to run for mayor against Lucinda Burghart, art-hating bad guy.

The campaign [electronic resource] : With liberty and study hall for all.

Format: eBook

Amanda Adams has always dreamed of running for class president. Her mom is a member of Congress and her dad is a political strategist who manages her mother's campaigns. Politics is in her DNA. She has the perfect VP in mind for the school ticket-her best friend Meghan Hart. But when Amanda finds out that Meghan has political ambitions of her own, these two best friends suddenly find themselves on opposite sides of the aisle, and, as each girl mounts her campaign, it's clear the gloves are about to come off. As the rest of their classmates begin to choose sides, the girls realize how they carry themselves over the coming weeks will have a lasting impact on the outcome.

Big book of quizzes
from the editors of Faithgirlz!.
Format:
The voting booth
Colbert, Brandy, author.
Format: eBook

The first year they are eligible to vote, Marva and Duke meet at their polling place and, over the course of one crazy day, fall in love.