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Finding Yourself by Getting Lost

…“Hallelujah.” So why doesn’t she tell everyone that Luke is lying from the beginning? It’s unaccountable, that is, until the relative roles of mal*]}*es and femal*]}*es in Hallie’s world become

Something Curious to Write About

…in eleven-year-old Tate P. Ellerbee. Tate, who follows a long line of feisty Southern-girl heroines from Scout Finch through India Opal Buloni and Dovey Coe, lives in fictional Rippling Creek,…

Hidden Treasure, a Haunted House, and an Unlikely Trio of Detectives

…math prodigy—he uses those other languages to try to understand the things he experiences—and so he narrates the book with a fusion of English, music notations, and math symbols. (That’s…

What Makes Us Who We Are?

…literature, from Dickens’s A Christmas Carol to It’s a Wonderful Life to the current Broadway hit If/Then. In her novel, McStay explores both lives of her main character: the life…

When Fury Meets Guilt

…Cody’s—and the reader’s—questions. What Cody finds sickens her: Meg’s correspondence with a “suicide support group” called Final Solution, which encourages people who feel suicidal to take their own lives. Members…

Girl at a Crossroads

…of men dressed in white robes and pointed hoods burn a cross. Stella knows exactly what she’s seeing: after several years of inactivity, the local chapter of the Ku Klux…

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