About the Author: “Victoria Piontek spent her childhood on the east coast of Florida watching egrets wade through salt marshes and listening to her mother’s stories of strong Southern women,
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In Love, Simon, we are lucky enough to get two separate scenes where Simon’s parents explicitly express their love and acceptance of him. Both of his parents talked to him
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About the Author: Hugo and Campbell award finalist Sarah Gailey is an internationally published writer of fiction and nonfiction. Their nonfiction has been published by Mashable and the Boston Globe,
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The weekend that Love, Simon came out, I cried a little bit because I worked that weekend, and the Sunday I had off, I was called in. However, the following
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Sad Perfect follows sixteen-year-old Pea, who has always known there was something different about her, but it isn’t until she gets diagnosed with Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) that she
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Here at Pine Reads Review, we spend quite a bit of time talking about young adult literature. It’s fresh, it’s funny, it’s relatable, it’s honest, it’s sometimes heart-wrenching, and it’s
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