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How to Talk to Your Succulent by Zoe Persico
How to Talk to Your Succulent by Zoe Persico While I usually focus on YA and adult books for high school students (age 14 and up), sometimes very edgy, I received this sweet graphic novel because I have a Substack … Continue reading
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Tagged books, communication, family, fiction, Graphic Novel, grief, middle-grade-fiction, plants, succulents
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John Green’s “Everything is Tuberculosis”
The infection has long exploited human biases and blind spots, wriggling its way through the paths injustice creates. Of course, tuberculosis doesn’t know what it’s doing, but for centuries, the disease has used social forces and prejudice to thrive wherever power systems devalue human lives.” Continue reading
Posted in Biography/Memoir, Human Rights Issues, Non-fiction
Tagged book reviews, books, Disease, Everything is Tuberculosis, health, john green, nonfiction, TB, tuberculosis
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Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books
The following is part of my post for this week over at “Be a Cactus” on Substack. Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books is not a YA book. However, it does have some teen characters, one of whom incites the … Continue reading
Orca Limelights: “The Frail Days”
Stella Wing (because it sounds more ‘new-punk’ than Wang) with her nose piercing and fire-engine-red hair is no Disney princess. She’s a drummer in a nameless band that needs a singer. Jacob is her guitarist and Miles plays the bass. … Continue reading
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