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J.J. Johnson is a youth counselor turned young adult novelist. She grew up (with an 80s perm) in a very small town in central New York. She then went to Binghamton University, where she discovered writing --and dancing, and marching, and sitting-in-- for social justice. She graduated with a history degree in 1996.

In 2001, J.J. earned a Master of Education from Harvard University, concentrating on adolescent risk and prevention, with eyes toward mental health and social injustice.

She is the author of THIS GIRL IS DIFFERENT, THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING, and BELIEVAREXIC (all from Peachtree Publishers). Her books have won numerous honors and have been translated into six languages.

J.J. loves to travel, practice yoga, read, hike, dance, laugh, a ...more

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“I get scared because things are finite, and I don't want them to be finite with you.”
― J.J. Johnson, The Theory of Everything

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“My boyfriend dumped me. My best friend won't talk to me. My future is in a garbage can. Everything has turned to crap. Can you please just let me be a sullen teenager. just this once”
― JJ Johnson, This Girl is Different

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“Me: Need to shop for a dress. Stenn asked me to prom.
The Momster: WTF!
Me: Mom? What do you think WTF means?
The Momster: Well That's Fantastic.”
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“We believe the one who has power. He is the one who gets to write the story. So when you study history, you must ask yourself, Whose story am I missing? Whose voice was suppressed so that this voice could come forth? Once you have figured that out, you must find that story too. From there you get a clearer, yet still imperfect, picture.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing

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“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
― Maya Angelou

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“Radical simply means "grasping things at the root.”
― Angela Davis

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“All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.”
― E.B. White

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“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

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