Something in BeTWEEN- Love like sky

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Our next book to discuss will be Love like sky By: Leslie C. Youngblood. Discussion questions and bio will be posted throughout the months of January and February. Thoughts and comments about the book may be posted at any time.

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[Desiree]

On Thursday February 18th we will be discussing
Love like sky by Leslie C. Youngblood.

About the Author:

Leslie C. Youngblood received an MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She began her undergraduate degree at Morris Brown College and completed her bachelor's at Georgia State University. After graduation, she served as a columnist and assistant editor for Atlanta Tribune: The Magazine.
She’s been awarded a host of writing honors including a 2014 Yaddo's Elizabeth Ames Residency, the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Prize, a Hurston Wright Fellowship, and the Room of Her Own Foundation’s 2009 Orlando Short Story Prize. Her short story, “Poor Girls’ Palace,” was published in the winter 2009 edition of the Indiana Review.
In 2010 she won the Go On Girl! Book Club Aspiring Writer Award. In 2016 she landed a two-book publishing deal with Disney-Hyperion for her Middle-Grade novel, LOVE LIKE SKY. She often teaches creative writing classes at Rochester, New York’s literary center, Writers & Books.
Born in Bogalusa, Louisiana, and raised in Rochester, New York. Love like sky is her debut novel.

About the book:2020-2021 LYRC book, reading level 4.1= 10 AR points

"Love ain't like that."
"How is it then?" Peaches asked, turning on her stomach to face me.
"It's like sky. If you keep driving and driving, gas will run out, right?"
"That's why we gotta go to the gas station."
"Yep. But have you ever seen the sky run out? No matter how far we go?"
"No, when we look up, there it is."
"Well that's the kind of love Daddy and Mama got for us, Peaches--love like sky."
"It never ends?"
"Never."