Chapter 16
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Germs in Action

A comic-style book for young readers offers a delightful tour of the science behind animal immune systems

Children’s author Heather L. Montgomery was inspired to write the comic book-style middle-grade nonfiction Sick! The Twists and Turns Behind Animal Germs amid the COVID-19 pandemic, as she wondered how animals…

Cutting Remembrances

Kevin Powers, author of The Yellow Birds, discusses the delicate art of writing about war

…for translating the surreal and tragic nature of war and its lingering effects into vivid images and penetrating insights. Of a cathedral Bartle visits after his return to Richmond, for…

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