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Just started; this is giving me Devil's Arithmetic vibes.

So far my favorites are the "We Real Cool" duet and the one about written vs spoken poetry.

This book is hard. It talks about how trauma is stored in the brain and influences future behaviors. For example, when people are regularly mocked or yelled at for their opinions/ideas, especially by those they care about, they learn to try to figure out the "right" response instead of sharing what they really think.

What makes this hard is that I see this from students. It makes me wonder what happened to cause it.

Ella has the ability to see the ghosts of dead animals. One day, the ghost of her pet dog starts acting strangely. When her cousin dies in a car accident that night, his spirit appears to her in a dream. Her cousin's spirit says that he was murdered, and begs her to stop the killer before he can hurt anyone else.