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Bk 2 of Tricks series: We pick up with the “Tricks” characters where they left off, with each character coming to terms with addiction, abuse, recovery (physically and emotionally) and making decisions appropriate to their needs and circumstances. Though their losses are deep, can they forgive themselves and move forward?

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When I was ten years old my then fifteen-year-old cousin was admitted to a lock-down facility for non-compliant youth because she would not treat her type 1 diabetes and seemed to be literally wasting away. I have no idea if her experience was anything like Jake‘s, but his story painfully illustrates how lonely and difficult that healing process must have been. I‘m grateful for this look into the psyche of someone living with anorexia nervosa.

I‘ve read many middle grade books written in verse, and if I were in my classroom today, I might have shared a stack. However, from home, the first one that came to mind that I hadn‘t already seen shared was this one about a girl dealing with a few truly difficult experiences.

My review includes a few examples of the poetic form used in the story. https://litsy.com/p/eG1FQmRpYzdn

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Emotional first-generation American story tied up with mother-daughter relationship. Get tissues!

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Thanks for the tag @Karisimo

My goal is to finish both of these by Sunday night. I'm about 1/2 through Mickey 7 and I have about 100 pages left on Way Station. Easy Peasy.
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John Schu‘s YA novel told in verse form is an incredibly moving book based on his own experiences of having an eating disorder. I felt desperately sympathetic to the vulnerable Jake whose relationship with his grandmother is clearly very important to him but more could have been made of his relationship with his parents, which is much too lightly sketched and should have been explored given his mum‘s anxiety issues seem to feed into Jake‘s.

Trying to get some reading in before going to sleep but my 2 reading buddies don't make it easy. Chase my big dog on the left and my dachshund is the Chewbacca looking lump on the right 🤣

My picks for #camplitsy24 🤍

Here‘s my nominations for this year‘s #CampLitsy!

Excited to be a camper again and interested in what we will be reading!!

Went for a nonfiction as the first one, it‘s about a woman with psychosis and sounds fascinating. I doubt it‘ll be for everyone (I love a mental health memoir but they are really tough to read sometimes) but I‘ll just read it anyway if it doesn‘t get picked.

Links below

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Novel in verse: 16 yo Amina, who lost her mom at the age of 3, feels sure she really lost her dad then too. Silence and acrimony persist between them, but the bottom falls out when the truth about the new pastor is revealed, and Amina‘s not the only one. Written with compassion and hope😔

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