Contact: Claire Benedict, claire@bearpondbooks.com Bear Pond Books of Montpelier, VT is sponsoring a Book Drive and Fundraising Campaign to support the fight against book banning in Florida. Bear Pond Books is working with the advocacy group Florida Freedom to Read Project (FFTRP) in this effort. Bear Pond is asking the public to purchase books by two local authors, Cory McCarthy and Kekla Magoon, that the store will ship to FFTRP who will distribute them to students across the state. Bear Pond Books is also promoting their Read More Ban Less sweatshirts, all proceeds of which will go to FFTRP. “With
Reading won’t make a difference unless it prompts us to act against racism in our daily lives, workplaces, communities, and places of worship, and in how we vote and what we support.