Author Summer Brenner's new novel, Richmond Tales: Lost Secrets of the Iron Triangle, is required summer reading for 4th and 5th graders in the troubled community of Richmond, California. The book aims to spur literacy and community pride. Richmond fifth grader Vanessa Cawranza shares what the book has meant to her.
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