I picked up Maureen Johnson’s 13 Little Blue Envelopes, a young adult novel published in 2005, because it looked like a relatively light read at
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Amal Meets Amal (Finally) #DiverseBookBloggers #ReadDiverse2017
I don’t often come across a character in a book who shares my first name: Amal, which is Arabic in origin and generally means “hope.”
“The Basis of My Sexual Education” #GabiReadalong
Gabi Hernandez of Isabel Quintero’s Gabi, A Girl In Pieces is an unusual main character to meet in an American young adult novel. She looks
A Passing Phase & The Dangers of Conversion Therapy
J. Paul Devlin’s A Passing Phase is a light-hearted coming-of-age story about a serious topic: societal and interpersonal bias against sexual and gender minorities. In
All The Light We Cannot See The Fault in Our Stars (An Inside Joke)
Courtesy of Mr. AMB: Anthony Doerr’s All The Light We Cannot See is a bestseller and a Pulitzer Prize-winner, so it hardly needs praise. I
The Fill-In Boyfriend: A YA Novel That Brings Back Memories
Who among us hasn’t had a fake Significant Other at some point in our lives? Or at least thought about it. 😉 My freshman year