Throwback Thursday Review | Warriors: Into the Wild | Erin Hunter

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Warriors: Into the Wild by Erin Hunter HarperCollins, 2003, 272 pages Trigger Warnings: Instances of violence About the Author: Erin Hunter is the pseudonym of five people: Kate Cary, Cherith

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A Review of Hulu’s Love, Victor | Bringing the Simonverse to the Small Screen

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Warning: Major spoilers below for the film, Love, Simon; Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli; and the Hulu original television series, Love, Victor.  Back in 2018, 20th

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I’ll Be the One | Lyla Lee

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I’ll Be the One by Lyla Lee  Katherine Tegen Books, 2020, 336 pages Trigger Warnings: fatphobia, queerphobia, parental emotional abuse, cyber bullying About the Author: Lyla Lee is the author

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Nocturna | Maya Motayne

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Nocturna by Maya Motayne Balzar + Bray, 2019, 471 pages Trigger Warnings: Parental abuse, gore, alcoholism, death of a loved one About the Author: Maya Motayne thought of herself as

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Throwback Thursday | Rickety Stitch and the Gelatinous Goo: The Road to Epoli | Ben Costa and James Parks

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Rickety Stitch and the Gelatinous Goo: The Road to Epoli by Ben Costa and James Parks  Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2017, 208 pages  About the Author: Ben Costa is

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Writing While Speechless | Welcoming Grace Kennedy to the Pine Reads Team

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Talking to people is terrifying.  Okay, maybe not, hanging-off-a-cliff-over-a-pool-of-man-eating-sharks terrifying, but sometimes, the thought of having to speak up about what I want is difficult for me. And the fact

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