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“I might have, for at least a little while, taken off my top-secret grief backpack and left it behind.”

- Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum

I think from now on whenever I know someone who is grieving I am going to imagine them with a top-secret grief backpack. Is there a better description for a person dealing with death?  They look like themselves but they are forever changed by this weighted invisible backpack of grief they carry with them constantly.

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“Will I, one day, be able to sleep with a guy and not feel horribly awkward and tortured and not wonder what it all means? I assume so. But right now, the thought of that sort of exposure seems unimaginable, and mostly, if I’m totally honest, nothing short of terrifying.”

- Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum

Terrifying. An accurate description.

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“I’m stuck in this brain, in this body, in this ugly swamp of humanness.”

- Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum

Ugly swamp of humanness is so freaking accurate.

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"...I only let people see the tip of my crazy iceberg. Underneath this veneer of slightly crazy and socially inept, I'm a complete disaster." -- Cath in Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell YES! Exactly. A thousand times yes.

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There are so many things I love about this author bio.

1. She “still thinks of the library as home.” Me too!

2. “She wrote this book as a series of letters to her two teenage daughters...”  How excited would you be to get mail?  I mean, getting mail when you are away is pretty awesome but to have it contain this story, bit by bit, even better.

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“Her upbringing had not prepared her for moments like this.”

The Hollow Kingdom by Claire B. Dunkle

Ha! I love it!

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Another teen book referencing a teen book.  Love it!

Here the main character in “The Start of Me and You” by Emery Lord talks about reading John Green’s “Looking for Alaska.”  And I believe this was written well before we knew there was going to be a moving. ;)

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I love this because so often we stress ourselves out striving for perfection when the best lessons can be learned from failure.  Things will not always be perfect and life would be boring if they were.

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“...I wasn’t quite ready to be me.  I needed to relearn myself...”

From “The Start of Me and You” by Emery Lord

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"It will not always feel like this. I promise. It will get easier."

Words of wisdom we all need to tell ourselves (or have an awesome friend tell us) at some point in our lives.

From “The Start of Me and You” by Emery Lord.

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"...the good stuff before the end is worth it."

"But knowing what happens isn't the same as knowing how it happens. Getting there is the best part."

"He handed me a new mind-set, wrapped in literary references." 

 From "The Start of Me and You" by Emery Lord 

 And can I point out that I highlighted THREE different passages on one page. I love Emery Lord's writing.

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Best Friends! From "The Start of Me and You" by Emery Lord.

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If you think YA is simple, you probably haven’t read a lot of it.

Rainbow Rowell

Read the full interview

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HIGH-FREAKING-FIVE.

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Nothing—nothing—fills me with rage quicker than someone who makes the assumption that YA book are just dumbed down simple stories. I just saw this again on the internet, so here is a very short list of YA books with amazing prose that you should read. Feel free to add more...

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A few books from YALSA’s 2015 Great Graphic Novels for Teens list.

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If I show consideration for others,” Lillian Lynburn said grumpily, “will you tell me again about how you shot my husband?

Unmade by Sarah Rees Brennan (via teahousebookbarn)

Lillian ‘Ideal Valentine’ Lynburn

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This One Summer by Jillian and Mariko Tamaki is most definitely worthy of both the Printz and Caldecott honors. It was a pleasure to join these girls during one of their many summers together. To watch them struggle with some really tough issues as well as those brought on simply by being a young girl growing -- body image, gender stereotypes, crushes on the not-so-worthy. There is no real beginning, middle, and end besides that of the summer season. There is no resolution. It is life. And the illustrations and choice of color: amazing.