5. Mirrors, Windows, Doors virtual bookshelf- Use the We Need Diverse Books website, Epic, Amazon, and the public/school/university library to select a total of 6 texts written for K - 12 students. Provide an image of the book's cover along with the APA reference. Briefly summarize the book and share your insights about how the book relates to Windows and Mirrors. Don't forget to include an annotated bibliography. Use the mirrors, windows, and doors classifications to be sure that your selection is comprehensive. According to Rudine Sims Bishop (1990), "Books are sometimes windows, offering views of worlds that may be real or imagined, familiar or strange."

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These windows are also sliding glass doors, and readers only have to walk through in imagination to become part of whatever world the author created and recreated. When lighting conditions are just right, a window can also be a mirror. Literature transforms human experience and reflects it back to us; in that reflection, we can see our own lives and experiences as part of the larger human experience. Reading becomes a means of self-affirmation, and readers often seek their mirrors in books."