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Interview with Trung Le Nguyen

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Spoiler alerts ahead for The Magic Fish! About the Author: “Trung Le Nguyen, also known as Trungles, is a Vietnamese-American comic book artist and storyteller from Minnesota. He was born in

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TOGETHER, APART | Love During a Pandemic

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Love is hard. From awkward dates to difficult conversations, it can be a struggle to find someone you want to spend your life with. And it’s even harder during a

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The Midnight Lie | Marie Rutkoski

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The Midnight Lie by Marie Rutkoski Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020, 358 pages Content Warning: violence, death, indirect mentions of sexual assault About the Author: “Marie Rutkoski is the New

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Boxed In | The Criminalization of Black Boys In and Out of Punching the Air

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Warning: This blog contains spoilers for Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam “Maybe jail is America.” —Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam Many people

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Among the Beasts & Briars | Ashley Poston

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Among the Beasts & Briars by Ashley Poston Balzer + Bray; 2020; 352 pages Content Warnings: Blood, animal death, graphic descriptions of violence, non-sexual nudity, death of a loved one,

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Brutalized & Blamed | How Grown Explores the Exploitation and Victim-Blaming of Black Girls

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Warning: This blog contains major spoilers for Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson, as well as a discussion of rape/sexual assault, pedophilia, stalking, murder, and emotional and physical abuse. (See all

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