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Please Excuse This Poem, Emily Loveless
Please Excuse This Poem, Emily Loveless
Children's Book and Media Review
One hundred poems by a diverse cross-section of young American poets delivers a wide variety of human experience. This collection touches on a range of subjects, many of them uncomfortable, brutally intimate, and totally unapologetic. With evocative, symbolic, and sarcastic language, these poets saturate the pages with their hearts and minds. If you find some that particularly resonate with you, short biographies and personal Q&As are included at the rear of the book.
How To Love, Meagan Andrus
How To Love, Meagan Andrus
Children's Book and Media Review
Reena and Sawyer have known each other their whole lives, and Reena has loved Sawyer for about that long. In high school, she pined after him, especially when her best friend began dating him. After a tragedy, Reena and Sawyer come together and fall deeply in love. Then one day, Sawyer leaves without telling anyone where he's going or when he'll return. Reena is left behind, newly pregnant and upset about the loss of a future she could have had. Nearly two years later, Sawyer returns and expects to be able to waltz back into Reena's life, just like that. …
No Place To Fall, Meagan Andrus
No Place To Fall, Meagan Andrus
Children's Book and Media Review
Sixteen-year-old Amber Vaughn is a singer, and a good one at that. She dreams of the day when she can leave behind her small town and complicated family When an opportunity to audition for a performing arts high school comes up, Amber spends all her time singing and preparing to hopefully wow the judges. She makes beautiful music with Will, her best friend's older brother, and enjoys fun with friends. However, things soon get complicated: two new boys at the school cause problems; the state threatens to take away Amber's nephew when her sister and brother-in-law are arrested; and Will, …
Little Peach, Emma Patton
Little Peach, Emma Patton
Children's Book and Media Review
Michelle is in the hospital, and she has a decision to make. There is a professional woman who says that she wants to help, but Michelle doesn’t know whether she should tell the truth. Through a series of flashbacks, Michelle reveals exactly how she got to the be in this position. She remembers a positive early childhood, being raised by her grandfather until he passes away. Then, all she has left is her drug-addicted mother and her mother’s boyfriend, whose physical advances scare Michelle. At age fourteen, she leaves home to live in New York. Soon, she meets Devon, who …
Little Peach, Meagan Andrus
Little Peach, Meagan Andrus
Children's Book and Media Review
Fourteen-year-old Michelle is kicked out of her house after her loving grandfather dies, leaving her with her crackhead mother. She runs away to make a new start in New York City but is quickly lured into a prostitution ring by a man named Devon. Michelle and her two other "sisters," Kat and Baby, sleep all day and work at night. Devon keeps them on narcotics to help them through the long nights. Eventually, Kat decides to quit the drugs, which makes Devon mad. After Kat's beaten senseless, Michelle, now called Little Peach, realizes that her "daddy" doesn't care about her …
Bluescreen, Abigail Packard
Bluescreen, Abigail Packard
Children's Book and Media Review
Marisa lives in Mirador in 2050, when everyone is connected through a djinni—a device that’s implanted directly into a person’s head. Mari and her friends, Sahara and Anja, are always connected. But when Anja comes across a drug called Bluescreen that connects directly into the djinni, Mari’s carefree world begins to unravel. After an accident that nearly kills Anja while she’s plugged in to Bluescreen, Mari begins investigating the drug. She learns that the drug implants into a djinni a code which can be used to take over the mind and body of the Bluescreen user. Mari becomes embroiled in …