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2026 Reading Challenge

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Jestine Ware

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in New York, The United States

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Fantasy, Science Fiction, Nonfiction

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May 2012

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I'm Jestine Ware, former editor at the company behind "Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls," the co-author of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Real-Life Tales of Black Girl Magic, and a freelance writer, editor, and writing coach.

I have worked as a freelance editor and writer for 14 years and a full-time editor for 5 years at small book and magazine publishers and Timbuktu Labs, Cricket Media, and Open Letter Books. I am a lifelong creative writer with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Creative Writing and a Master of Arts degree in Rhetoric and Composition. I have worked in academic writing centers and taught both creative writing and composition classes. ...more

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Average rating: 4.6 · 410 ratings · 192 reviews · 16 distinct works

	Ada Lovelace Cracks the Code (Rebel Girls Chapter Books) by Rebel Girls, Marina Muun (Illustrator), Jestine Ware (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.17 avg rating — 659 ratings — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Madam C.J. Walker Builds a Business (A Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls Chapter Book) by Rebel Girls, Salini Perera (Illustrator), Jestine Ware (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.31 avg rating — 506 ratings — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lipong and the Ostrich Chicks by Jestine Ware (Goodreads Author), Tololwa M. Mollel 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

by James W. Loewen

bookshelves: history, nonfiction, currently-reading

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The Reformatory

by Tananarive Due (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: black-girl-magic, poc-all-genres, horror, currently-reading, sff-and-paranormal

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Been Outside: Adventures of Black Women, Nonbinary, and Gender Nonconforming People in Nature

by Amber Wendler

bookshelves: black-girl-magic, anthology, nonfiction, nature, poc-all-genres, environmental-justice, currently-reading

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