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Heavy-handed nods to diversity don't make a book diverse; they make it feel like different demographics were being checked off a list. I was annoyed by this tactic from the beginning, but kept reading anyway. Once the school shooting started, though, it focused too much on the horrific details of children and teachers being shot as they try to escape, without adding anything to make me feel that I was learning something significant about why this happens so often in American schools. After readi
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This book was so well written but so sad and heart breaking. The characters were so real and there were no fairy tale endings. Sad but so well done.
Apr 13, 2016
Melissa Seng
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Melissa
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