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Let Struggling Readers Read What They Want
I worked as a tutor for over five years, helping students learn to decode words and comprehend what they read. Many of the students fell either on the dyslexic or autistic spectrums, and all had dealt with difficulty and discouragement with reading in the past. This meant I regularly faced...
Review of The Lost Coast
The Lost Coast by Amy Rose Capetta High School Candlewick 342 pp. g 5/19 978-1-5362-0096-6 $17.99 High schooler Danny and her mom arrive in Tempest, California, under mysterious circumstances (Danny: “I was the one who had begged for a new life, my tears salted with guilt”). There, where the redwoods...
"WE ARE HERE": queer books beyond subtext
Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York City, an event that laid the groundwork for the first Gay Pride parade and celebrations that have evolved into a month-long recognition of LGBTQ+ identities and communities.During my 1990s childhood in a pervasively conservative, Christian, Southern environment, I...
Small print
Some of your favorite novels have just been miniaturized...and flipped sideways. “Penguin Minis” present unabridged texts in a horizontal format with a trim size of roughly 5” x 3”. First introduced in the Netherlands as "Flipbacks" (primarily itty-bitty editions of popular adult books), the line launches in the United States...