Sanhita SinhaRoy writes: “What is it like living inside a moment? That’s what bestselling author Jacqueline Woodson asked herself during the pandemic—and, in turn, asked attendees of ALA’s LibLearnX virtual conference on January 23 from her home in Brooklyn. ‘None of us saw this coming,’ said Woodson. ‘One day we walked into our classrooms, we walked into our libraries, we walked into our jobs, and the next day we didn’t.’ Woodson read from her 2018 middle-grade title Harbor Me, which tells the story of six students who, every week, were allowed to talk among themselves about the pains and struggles they had to hide from the rest of the world. She chose that book, she said, because the young characters also get a sudden change that awakens them, and it ‘is a moment where they are asked to reimagine a world where their voices are heard, where their stories matter.’ “