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All WRAP’d Up: WRAP-ing Up the Year

Today
Rebecca Ballenger

The Teen Reading Ambassadors created this issue of All WRAP’d Up with emphasis on the 2026 Tucson Festival of Books and end-of-year reflection. We preselected authors and illustrators who we studied before the book festival. At the festival, we heard from those authors and illustrators and others and wandered among the exhibitors. Additionally, we thought about our experience as Reading Ambassadors over the past academic year and realized how much we learned about our community and the diversity within it. As Quin notes in his Letter from the Editor, “There are millions and billions of perspectives across the world, and ALL of them are deserving of a voice. If there’s anything we’ve learned this year, it’s certainly that."

This post includes selected pages from the ‘zine and information on how to request a paper copy.

All WRAP’d Up! cover features covers from previous issues
All WRAP’d Up! Volume 2, Issue 3 Cover
Brightly colored whimsical image made with paint, texture plates and felt.

Art Knows No Structure

Text surrounded by connected dots

It’s last time meeting, everyone
they’ve been so nice and Great
wow IS over
For Now
[TK]

Books and Authors informing this issue:
Lynn Painter (Fake Skating)
Emiko Jean (Love Me Tomorrow)
Kat Cho (K Verse books)
Heiress of Nowhere by Stacie Lee
Scott Campbell (Cabin Head Tree Head)
Julie Kagawa (Storm Dragons series)
The Golden Boy’s Guide to Bipolar by Sonido Reyes
One Word, Six Letters by Adib Khorram
Rosa by Any Other Name by Hailey Alcaraz
Sisters In the Wind by Angeline Boulley

Consultants: Rebecca Ballenger, Aika Adamson and Alexis Mendoza.

If you would like a copy of our ‘zine response to these books, send a 6.5 X 9.5 self-addressed, stamped envelope (SASE - flat rate for under 2 oz.) to: Worlds of Words Center - TRAP, U of A College of Education, 1430 E Second St, Rm 453, Tucson, AZ 85721

For more information on TRAP, visit wowlit.org.

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We Can Promote Global Literature Together!

The Worlds of Words Reading Ambassador program is completely free for participants who receive books for themselves and books to share (with their school librarian, ELA/English teacher, other school entity or friends). If you would like to support this program, please make a gift on-line through the University of Arizona Foundation.

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