Gordon Jack
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Your Own Worst Enemy
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2018
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The Boomerang Effect
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2016
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A heartbreaking and hopeful novel in verse about a young girl’s experience moving to California from Taiwan. When Anna's family tells her they are moving to the United States (aka “The Beautiful Country”) she is excited to experience the life she’s s ...more |
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This book blew me away. The writing, illustrations, photographs, and documents all work beautifully together to give readers a glimpse into the horrors of Japanese internment. By focusing on three different photographers, you also see how much an ima ...more | |
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Li Zhen lives on an island with her grandfather, tending goats and flirting with a woman who helps row the ferry. One day, while coming back from an errand, she realizes she doesn’t have enough money to cover the ferry fair, so she takes some coins f ...more | |
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The book jacket lays out the basic plot points of the story: Ophelia has a reputation as being boy-crazy. When she starts to have feelings for Tillie, she realizes her identity is more complex than either she or her friends understand. But how do you ...more | |
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“Just last month, he was the social pariah after he told his father we used a thousand-dollar bottle of wine to make sangria popsicles.”
― The Boomerang Effect
― The Boomerang Effect
“The envelope was embossed with the logo of my father’s law firm—Barry, Yu & Singh, an appropriate name for a ruthless pack of attorneys. Walter Yu was actually senior partner, but he settled for second billing so that the firm’s name would evoke fear in opposing counsel.”
― The Boomerang Effect
― The Boomerang Effect
“I thought I was taking a boring piece of paper and making it look cool, when in fact, I was taking something cool and making it flat and generic. It was the complicated and imperfect folds that made people interesting. The last thing we should be doing is trying to iron them out.”
― The Boomerang Effect
― The Boomerang Effect
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