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The Jellyfish Problem

by Tessa Yang (Goodreads Author)

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RJ’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for With the Fire on High: An Award-Winning YA Novel about a Teen Mom Finding Her Voice through Food, Family, and Passion

With the Fire on High: An Award-Winning YA Novel about a Teen Mom Finding Her Voice through Food, Family, and Passion by Elizabeth Acevedo

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My aunt Sarah says it’s in our blood, an innate need to tell a story through food.

On the Come Up

by Angie Thomas

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The Henna Wars

by Adiba Jaigirdar

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RJ’s Quotes

“I am not a person to say the words out loud / I think them strongly, or let them hunger from the page.”
― Keri Hulme

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“I’m having a hard time writing about Sunday. Getting the long hollow feeling of Sundays. No mail and faraway lawn mowers, the hopelessness.”
― Lucia Berlin, A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

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“Your silence will not protect you.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

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