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TUCSON, Ariz. -- — Readers who love the dozens of genres celebrated at the Tucson Festival of Books will also get to meet authors at special panels this weekend.
Before he sits down for that panel discussion, Barajas wanted to visit one of his favorite places growing up: Fantasy Comics on First Avenue, north of Grant. Back in the 1990s, Barajas said his parents bought comic books thinking they'd be worth a lot of money to sell in the future. Barajas said he's grateful this passion project turned into a book that Joe Schmidt, an educator and contact in New York City, felt was so important it had to be shared in schools thousands of miles away.
Barajas pointed out that presently, many kids in Arizona schools may know much more about Cesar Chavez' legacy as a labor activist. Students, however, may now less so about how Dolores Huerta, who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012, and co-founded the United Farmworkers Association.
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