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READ FOR JUSTICE BOOK CLUB
WHERE STORIES BECOME SPELLS FOR A MORE JUST WORLD -- ONE MONTH AT A TIME
About
The Read for Justice Book Club is a slow, thoughtful reading experience
for children, families, teachers, and adult learners who believe stories
can change how we see the world.
We are a community of readers exploring children's books connected to justice, courage, belonging, and care.
Each theme brings together three carefully chosen picture books organized around a larger idea. Readers move through the books at their own pace, sit with the stories, and reflect on what those stories might ask of them.
This is reading as practice. Reading as ritual. Reading as resistance.
BOOK CLUB
9$Every monthDISCUSSION QUESTIONS & GUIDE FOR 1 NEW PICTURE BOOK ON A THEME PER MONTH + 4 THEME BRACELETS- Tender social justice learning for readers of any age
- Discussion questions that build justice capacity
- Resources for further learning on the month's theme
- An optional once monthly book chat for grown ups
- A magical bracelet for each of the book club's 4 themes
- A spell-casting/intention setting practice for each theme
- Fun extras from Zapoura & friends reading along with you
- A link to our Bookshop for purchasing the month's books
BOOK CLUB +
17$Every monthMATERIALS TO READ & DISCUSS 1 NEW PICTURE BOOKS ON ONE THEME FOR THE MONTH + 4 THEME BRACELETS + SUPPORTING ONE SOLIDARITY SUBSCRIBER- Tender social justice learning for readers of any age
- Ready-made discussion questions that build justice capacity
- Resources to extend the learning on the month's theme
- An optional once monthly book chat for grown ups
- Two magical bracelets for each of the book club's 4 themes
- A spell-casting/intention setting practice for each theme
- Fun extras from Zapoura & friends reading along with you
- A link to our Bookshop for purchasing the month's books
- Your support = One Solidarity Subscription/month
"SOLIDARITY" BOOK CLUB
0$MONTHLY CURRICULUM FOR 1 NEW PICTURE BOOK ON A THEME for students, trainees, teachers, parents, and other people with financial constraintsFree Plan- Tender on social justice learning for readers of any age
- Discussion questions that build justice capacity
- Resources to extend the learning on the month's theme
- Fun extras from Zapoura & friends reading along with you
- An optional once monthly book chat for grown ups
- A link to our Bookshop for purchasing the books
How It Works
Each theme includes three books and a Storyseed discussion guide written by Zapoura Newton-Calvert — curriculum rooted in the Social Justice Standards from Learning for Justice and designed for readers of all ages, from the very young to the very grown.
When you finish all three books in a theme, you're invited to complete a short reflection called Activate Your Bracelet — a reading spell about what you learned, what you want to carry forward, and what you want to practice in the world.
Submit your reflection and receive a handmade bracelet connected to that theme. Not a prize. A reminder.
Current Themes
🐇 Blue Rabbit: Immigration & Bravery
Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote · Two White Rabbits · To the Other Side
*New members start here.
🐸 Green Frog: Speak Up
Together · Forever Our Home · The Coquies Still Sing
🌻 Golden Sunflower: History, Memory & Girls' Rights
*coming soon
🐈 Calico Cat: Refuge, Friendship, & Belonging
*coming soon
Join the Community
Choose the membership that's right for you.
🐇 Basic — $9/month
Full access to all Storyseed curriculum guides, the Activate Your Bracelet reflection, and your theme bracelet when you complete your reading spell.
💚 Supporting — $17/month
Everything in Basic, plus your membership helps keep a solidarity subscriber in the community. Your $17 means two readers get to be here — you, and someone who couldn't otherwise afford it.
🌿 Solidarity — free
For readers who want to be part of this community and for whom cost is a barrier. Full access to all curriculum and the reading experience. Bracelets available for $10 to cover materials and mailing, or gifted by a supporting member who paid it forward.
Who This Is For
The Read for Justice Book Club is for you if you are a parent or caregiver who wants to read justice-focused books with your children and have real conversations about the world. It's for you if you're a teacher or librarian looking for curriculum that goes deeper. It's for you if you're an adult learner who knows that picture books are for everyone, and that stories are one of the most powerful tools we have for building the world we want.
You don't need a reading group. You don't need to be an expert. You just need to show up for the books.
About the Curriculum
Storyseed Curriculum is written by Zapoura Newton-Calvert, co-founder of Reading Is Resistance and Teaching Associate Professor at Portland State University. Each guide includes discussion questions organized by page, connections to the Learning for Justice Social Justice Standards, facilitation tips for reading with children or in community, and a resource and action guide for going deeper.
The curriculum is rooted in abolitionist, decolonizing, heart/body-centered, and white anti-racist practices. It is designed for readers of all ages — because it is always the right time, and you are always the right age, to deepen your liberation practices.
Questions?
Reach out at readingisresistanceportland@gmail.com or find us on Instagram @reading_is_resistance.
Together we move from reading to action.