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Book Review: Finding Junie Kim by Ellen Oh
An important read about standing up for yourself and others, about getting help, and about enduring. I'm so glad I didn't miss this book.
Book Review: Love Is a Revolution by Renée Watson
You can never go wrong picking up a book by Watson, but this book is really spectacular for its emphasis on growth, love, family, and truth. A great story about finding yourself.
Writing Myself a New Story, a guest post by Jasmine Warga
In a moving essay, Jasmine Warga shares about her uncle Abdalla, her trips to Jordan, identity, and writing a new story.
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Book Review: I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver
This heartfelt story about a nonbinary teen will empower readers. Ben's journey is not always easy, but it is full of love, affirmation, and eventual happiness. This story, this representation, this example is so needed.
Book Review: Love from A to Z by S. K. Ali
Easily in the top five books I've read so far in 2019. This is a beautiful, complex, and important book that centers the Muslim experience and shows the power of anger, peace, and connection.
Book Review: American Panda by Gloria Chao
Publisher’s description An incisive, laugh-out-loud contemporary debut about a Taiwanese-American teen whose parents want her to be a doctor and marry a Taiwanese Ivy Leaguer despite her squeamishness with germs and crush on a Japanese classmate. At seventeen, Mei should be in high school, but skipping fourth grade was part of her parents’ master plan. […]
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Book Review: Saints and Misfits by S. K. Ali
Publisher’s description Saints and Misfits is an unforgettable debut novel that feels like a modern day My So-Called Life…starring a Muslim teen. There are three kinds of people in my world: 1. Saints, those special people moving the world forward. Sometimes you glaze over them. Or, at least, I do. They’re in your face so […]
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