Others: Overwhelmingly positive Consumed by a stream of dark thoughts and worries that she can't turn off, a girl coping with Purely-Obsessional OCD learns to accept herself and take control of her life through her experiences in poetry club.
Genres: young adult, poetry
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Renée Watson
2019 · 368 pages · 2 reviews
Others: PositiveJasmine and Chelsea are sick of the way women are treated even at their progressive NYC high school, so they decide to start a Women's Rights Club. They post everything online—poems, essays, videos of Chelsea performing her poetry, and Jasmine's response to the racial macroaggressions she experiences—and soon they go viral. But with such positive support, the club is also targeted by online trolls. When things escalate, the principal shuts the club down. Jasmine and Chelsea will risk everything for their voices—and those of other young women—to be heard.
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Elizabeth Acevedo
2018 · 361 pages · 12 reviews
Others: Overwhelmingly positiveXiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.
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William Shakespeare
1631 · 143 pages · 0 reviews
This play within a play is a delightful farce about a fortune hunter who marries and tames" the town shrew. The comedy, often produced today because of its accessibility, is one of the plays Shakespeare intended for the general public rather than for the nobility. CliffsComplete combines the full original text of The Taming of the Shrew with a helpful glossary and CliffsNotes-quality commentary into one volume. You will find:A unique pedagogical approach that combines the complete original text with expert commentary following each sceneA descriptive bibliography and historical background on the author, the times, and the work itselfAn improved character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the charactersSidebar glossaries"
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Ibi Zoboi
2020 · 400 pages · 3 reviews
Others: Overwhelmingly positiveThe story that I thought was my life didn’t start on the day I was born Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he’s seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood escalates into tragedy. “Boys just being boys” turns out to be true only when those boys are white. The story that I think will be my life starts today Suddenly, at just sixteen years old, Amal’s bright future is upended: he is convicted of a crime he didn’t commit and sent to prison. Despair and rage almost sink him until he turns to the refuge of his words, his art. This never should have been his story. But can he change it? With spellbinding lyricism, award-winning author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam tell a moving and deeply profound story about how one boy is able to maintain his humanity and fight for the truth, in a system designed to strip him of both. source: https://www.harpercollins.ca/9780062996503/punching-the-air/
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Amanda Lovelace
2016 · 199 pages · 3 reviews
Others: Overwhelmingly positive"From Amanda Lovelace, a poetry collection in four parts: the princess, the damsel, the queen, and you. The first three sections piece together the life of the author while the final section serves as a note to the reader. This moving book explores love, loss, grief, healing, empowerment, and inspiration"--Publisher's website.
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L.M. Montgomery
1939 · 323 pages · 1 review
Others: PositiveAnne is the mother of five and happy with her life in Ingleside until she worries her husband may not love her anymore, so she's ready to make him fall in love with her all over again.
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Loved itThis book has a big focus on finding yourself finding yourself through your friends through your own personal interests like it's it's very self-reflective in my opinion. I can say with sincerity that this is definitely one of my favorite Standalone of all time.
Loved itThis book was so well done like it combined my love of music and playlist and it also had mental illness in there and like it was really plot twisty and sad but beautiful all at the same time
