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Ashley Hope Pérez
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I have a problem: one of the main characters of my new novel-in-progress is shy, quiet, tongue-tied. She's also passionate, secretly sensual, and fiercely dedicated to what she cares about. But how do I get her to speak? What does it mean for narration when a character is quiet? Do I write in the third person? Or would that be like saying that, because she's shy, Naomi can't speak for herself?
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The Knife and the Butterfly   3.64 avg rating — 14 ratings
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I just finished listening to Chris Crutcher’s Deadline, and doing so was both a pleasure (I’ve loved Chris Crutcher since listening to his fabulous Whale Talk) and a chance to think about the relationship between realism and diversity in YA. You might...more |
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| Steve Brezenoff's latest novel, Brooklyn, Burning, sets the bar high for punk-friendly, slacker-sweet, gender-indifferent YA. And it takes on the issues facing many LGBT teens in the wisest way possible: by refusing to make those issues all that the ...more | |
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| Drowning Instinct by Ilsa Bick takes hold of you and doesn't let you go until the very last page. I'm proof: I read it in two sittings. Even knowing that Liam would be up at 7:00, I stayed up till 3:00 in the morning to finish it. Here's the descript...more | |
"Yea, hang in there! Like I said, it is mostly frustrating when you've read the first book. (And for the record: I haven't yet read P's third.)
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This book was an incredibly poignant story. The heroine is a young girl struggling to get through her senior year of high school. She is the youngest daughter in a Latino family in Houston. Her dream, to pass her AP Calculus class/exam and progress...
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