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Elementary School Library REJECTS Kids Books Donated By Melania Trump

Emily Zanotti

The First Lady’s office gifted a package of books to one school per state in honor of National Reading Week, but one school librarian in Cambridge, Massachusetts turned Melania Trump’s gift into an excuse for “Resistance.”

Liz Phipps Soeiro, an elementary school librarian and advocate for “inclusive” libraries, turned down the package of books, which included a few ubiquitous kids’ titles, because she felt the First Lady could have made better choices when doling out the reading material.

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