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Helene Forst

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Born

in NYC, The United States

Website

http://www.heleneforst.com

Genre

Young Adult, Contemporary, Historical Fiction

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Born in Brooklyn and raised in Roslyn, New York, Helene has been teaching for over 50 years and was the founder and director of a private school for dyslexic students in Bridgehampton, New York. She holds advanced degrees from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Dowling College, and Harvard University. Helene has penned two award-winning feature screenplays: The Rebels Roar and Behind the Hedges, and has published two coming-of-age, young adult novels: The Journey of Hannah Woods and Stoked-1969. In 2000, she was nominated for The Woman of Distinction Award by Senator Kenneth LaValle for her environmental activism. Currently, she continues to teach and write in her hometown of East Hampton, New York where she lives with her hig ...more

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	The Journey of Hannah Woods 3.98 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The Poison in Your Laundry In February of 2018, I posted an article Id written for Guestwords in The East Hampton Star. As I walked through the lanes in East Hampton Village this morning, I couldnt get over all the toxic fragrances filling the streets during this pandemic. I hoped that the reason for it []

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Helene’s Quotes

“It's kind of fun to do the impossible.”
― Walt Disney

tags: inspirational

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“Whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding
as it should.”
― Max Ehrmann, Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life

tags: determinism, universe

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“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
― Carter Crocker

tags: misattributed-a-a-milne

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“Someday they'll give a war and nobody will come.”
― Carl Sandburg

tags: inspirational-quote

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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
― Margaret Mead

tags: activism, attributed-no-source, change, inspirational, life, philosophy, world

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YA Reads for Teachers (And Any Other Adults!) — 1918 members — last activity Mar 02, 2026 06:13AM
We are a group of educators (teachers, media specialists / librarians, and home school teachers) parents and other adult fans of young adult and child ...more

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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more