Lewis, Cicely: - Cicely Lewis is a school librarian with a passion for creating lovers of reading.
When she is not reading, you can find Cicely writing for her bi-monthly column in the School Library Journal where she shares her book recommendations..
A native of Mississippi, she currently resides in Georgia with her Anime loving husband, Michael and two rambunctious children, Tristan and Trinity.
In 2017, she started the Read Woke challenge in response to the shootings of young unarmed black people, the repeal of DACA, and the lack of diversity in young adult literature.
She was named the 2020 National Librarian of the Year by School Library Journal and Scholastic, a 2019 Library Journal Mover and Shaker and the 2019 National Teacher Award for Lifelong Readers by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and Penguin Random House (PRH).
Lewis, Cicely: - Cicely Lewis is a school librarian with a passion for creating lovers of reading