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Author: Rosalie Jacobson

Community Initiatives Manager for High School and Penn Students

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Checking in with the Penn Libraries Community Engagement Team

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To celebrate the end of the semester, we invited the wonderful University of Pennsylvania students from the Community Engagement team to tell us about books that feel like “home” to them.

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Author: Rosalie Jacobson

“If You Don’t See the Book You Want on the Shelves, Write it.”

Exploring the meanings of "home": Children’s lit recommendations from the Penn Libraries Community Engagement team