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Blog II

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  Blog II contents: The 57 Bus  by Daska Slater The First Part Last  by Angela Johnson Graveyard Shift  by Angela Roquet The Mango Opera  by Tom Corcoran Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe  by Heather Webber Redeployment  by Phil Klay When the World Didn't End: Poems  by Caroline Kaufman The Wives  by Tarryn Fisher Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty  by G. Neri The 57 Bus  by Dashka Slater Response: As I read the true accounts of Richard setting Sasha's skirt on fire in The 57 Bus  by Dashka Slater, I could not wait to get to the end to see what his punishment was and how the court proceedings  ended. (c) The book did an awesome job explaining the agender teenage struggles  of Sasha. I enjoyed how the author clearly explained the definitions of the terms for gender and sexuality that those of us that are not familiar with could understand. My views of believing everyone should be able to love who they want and li...

Blog I

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 Blog I contents:  The BAD GUYS  by Aaron Blabey FLOTSAM  by David Wiesner Henry & the Buccaneer Bunnies  by Carolyn Crimi The House of Memories  by Benjamin Hulme-Cross I Survived The Japanese Tsunami, 2011 I, Too, Am American  by Langston Hughes Interrupting Chicke n by David Ezra Stein Little Red and the Very Hungry Lion  by Alex Smith Misunderstood Shark  by Ame Dyckman New Kid  by Jerry Craft No More Poems! A Book in Verse that just gets Worse!  by Rhett Miller The Poky Little Puppy  by Kristen Depken Police Officers  by Cari Meister The Runaway Piggy | El Cochinito Fugitivo  by James Luna Who Were The Beatles?  by Geoff Edgers The BAD GUYS by Aaron Blabey Evaluation of book:  Aaron Blabey plays on the world-known "bad guys" in his animal characters in this graphic novel. His use of the Wolf telling the story, sharing his "buddies" with the reader, lets us feel as if we are getting to know the anima...