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Gutter Child by Jael Richardson
This is the must-read book of the year and I can’t wait to teach with it.
Angie Thomas, Black Lives Matter, Catherine Hernandez, Cherie Dimaline, civil rights movement, dystopia, Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD), Gutter Child, Jael Richardson, kekla magoon, literacy, OLA Superconference, Scarborough, The Black Panthers, the marrow thieves, the rock and the river, To Kill a Mockingbird -
Apocalypse Kitchen by Jen Mt. Pleasant
Apocalypse Kitchen by Jen Mt. Pleasant My rating: 4 of 5 stars I can’t wait to try out the recipes! Jen has some whacky treasures of how to save and preserve food for an apocalypse. I particularly enjoyed the section on proteins. She also has a taste for spicier stuff than I usually go for.…
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Crow Winter by Karen McBride
I haven’t had such a big crying cathartic end to a book in a loooong time.
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He Must Like You by Danielle Younge-Ullman
He Must Like You by Danielle Younge-Ullman My rating: 3 of 5 stars Caution spoilers ahead! I realize that last year’s Danielle Younge-Ullman book Everything Beautiful Is Not Ruined was stellar….like I gave it 10 out of 10 and it was in my top 3 of the year. So I had high hopes for He…
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Avoid the Summer Slump: for Secondary Students
If I were you and I had just come out of this semester feeling like a squeaky wheel, rather than a finely tuned speed racer, I would want to get back up to speed in time for the new semester or even for the next step in your post-secondary pathway.

