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Kate is a senior in high school. She’s working hard, both in school and out — keeping her grades up, working at the pharmacy, and keeping things on track at home, filling the role her dead mother would have had. Her father is a minister, and is often called away to help someone in the community, and Kate is left to make sure her brother
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Two teenagers with depression and suicidal urges meet on the ledge of a bell tower. What could go wrong? Theodore Finch (goes by Finch) and Violet Markey knew who each other were before this fateful meeting, but they didn’t really travel in the same circles. But Finch, who likes to spend a good part of each day imagining how he could die, sees a bit
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When I fly through a book like I flew through this one, I have no choice but to give it five stars. Emoni is starting her senior year of high school, but one thing makes her different than her classmates — Emoni had a baby when she was a freshman. While all her classmates and friends are looking ahead to what college they are going
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This book is everything it promises. It’s touching and horrifying and hopeful and devastating and has important things to say, even to a middle-aged white woman like myself. Or maybe especially to a middle-aged white woman like myself. The characters feel real without being stereotypical. The situation is one that could unfold tomorrow, almost anywhere in the country. If you’ve been avoiding this book because
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