#christine heppermann

[lillyli-74]

But here's a great thing about stories: they can be retold.

~Christine Heppermann

[tamurakafkaposts]

How stupid that all I have to do

is grow two squishy lumps and suddenly

I'm man's best friend

Christine Heppermann, Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty

[ask-cam]

What goes up (must come down)

What goes up by Christine Heppermann spoke to me for a lot of reasons. It is organized uniquely as a collection of poems by our main character Jorie as she comes to terms with her parents divorce due to her father cheating on her mother. She is a unique person, interested in mushrooms and other floral life in the woods. She makes art about her mushrooms and classically no one understands her except for her ex-boyfriend Ian.

Spoilers ahead: She and Ian break up because Ian is going to college, and she doesn't trust that he won't find someone else so she may as well cut it there. Throughout their relationship Jorie confides in Ian and Ian learns of her fathers cheating. Shortly after Ian and her break up Jorie hooks up with a boy named Connor at a party Ian is hosting, Uh oh.

Jorie is now faced with the dilemma that she now has done something very similar to her father, someone she has spent most of the story trying to figure out how she felt about. She couldn't decide to forgive him or to continue hating him, to vent all her frustration on him for what he did to her mother and her lives. But now she has done the very thing she has spent most of the story conflicted with her father about.

Here is where I found what I wanted to take away from this story, its that despite all of this turmoil everything goes on. Jorie still has her interests and even though her father was heavily part of them she still continues to do what makes her happy and continue right along. There is a poem titled "In Common" in which she details a peace she made called "family resemblance" it is exploring mushroom families and their relation to one another and how different mushrooms are more closely related to humans than they are plants.

I love this double meaning because it shows that despite the painful memories associated with her family and their resemblance to her work that is no reason to stop enjoying what you do. That is something we can all takeaway from this is that despite how big it may seem in the moment we can still all move on and just keep doing our best when something bad happens.

[lgbtqreads]

Fave Five: Queer YA in Verse

Fave Five: Queer YA in Verse

Ask Me How I Got Here by Christine Heppermann Every Body Looking by Candice Iloh The Black Flamingo and Only on the Weekends by Dean Atta Nothing Burns as Bright as You by Ashley Woodfolk The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin by Kip Wilson Bonus: Coming June 28th is Baby Teeth by Meg Grehan, who also has a great queer MG in verse called The Deepest Breath

[apoemaday]

Nature Lesson

by Christine Heppermann

The dress code says we must cover ourselves in ample pants, skirts that reach well below our lascivious knees, polos buttoned over the rim of the canyon, a glimpse of which can send a boy plunging to such depths he may never climb back up to algebra. We say that if a hiker strays off the path, trips, and winds up crippled, is it really the canyon’s fault?

[the-final-sentence]

Shake him off.

Christine Heppermann, from “The Devil Inside”

[musemymind]

Some pain you can run through. Some pain you can’t.

Ask Me How I Got Here Christine Heppermann

[goodbooksandgoodwine]

What Goes Up by Christine Heppermann | Book Review

What Goes Up by Christine Heppermann | Book Review

Verse books are my kryptonite. Seriously, I just got into them randomly and now cannot resist picking them. What Goes Up by Christine Heppermann is a book I started reading on a whim on my Kindle. You see, this is going to sound so shallow, but I was looking for the shortest book to read as a bit of a palate cleanser. This was the book that came up. I ended up reading What Goes Up in a single…

[clarislam]

Book Review: "Poisoned Apples" by Christine Heppermann

To kick off the #poetryreviews I have for #NationalPoetryMonth, fairytales mix with some dark subjects in the poetry collection "Poisoned Apples" by Christine Heppermann! #bookreview #poetrycollection #poetry #PoisonedApples #ChristineHeppermann #fairytale

Cover of the book “Poisoned Apples: Poems For You, My Pretty” by Christine Heppermann. I’m back with another book review, and this time I’m reviewing the poetry collection “Poisoned Apples” by Christine Heppermann! This collection’s full name is “Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty,” and it’s a poetry collection that blends fairytale themes with dark subject matter. It’s been a while since…

[2020ya]

WHAT GOES UP

by Christine Heppermann

(Greenwillow, 8/18/20)

9780062387981

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Acclaimed author Christine Heppermann’s novel-in-verse tackles betrayals and redemption among family and friends with her signature unflinching—but always sharply witty—style. For fans of Elana K. Arnold, Laura Ruby, and A. S. King. When Jorie wakes up in the loft bed of a college boy she doesn’t recognize, she’s instantly filled with regret. What happened the night before? What led her to this place? Was it her father’s infidelity? Her mother’s seemingly weak acceptance? Her recent breakup with Ian, the boy who loved her art and supported her through the hardest time of her life? As Jorie tries to reconstruct the events that led her to this point, free verse poems lead the reader through the current morning, as well as flashbacks to her relationships with her parents, her friends, her boyfriend, and the previous night.

[altheaphotography]

(Don't) Call Me Crazy edited by Kelly Jensen

(Don’t) Call Me Crazy edited by Kelly Jensen

This book took me over a month to finish, and for once, I’m okay with that.

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[quietya]

Ask Me How I Got Here by Christine Heppermann

Addie has always known what she was running toward. In cross-country, in life, in love. Until she and her boyfriend—her sensitive, good-guy boyfriend—are careless one night and she ends up pregnant. Addie makes the difficult choice to have an abortion. And after that—even though she knows it was the right decision for her—nothing is the same anymore. She doesn’t want anyone besides her parents and her boyfriend to know what happened; she doesn’t want to run cross-country; she can’t bring herself to be excited about anything. Until she reconnects with Juliana, a former teammate who’s going through her own dark places.

[random-bookquotes]

When I was little, my sins were little, too:   a tiny bundle of lies. Unkind thoughts about my brother. Still, to me, they weighed  as much as boulders.

Christine Heppermann, Ask Me How I Got Here

[onetoomanyaddictions]

Prince Charming

First thing through the door, Jed compliments Mom's new haircut. He listens to Dad go off. "Guess we'll have to wait for baseball, Jed, to win back Husky pride." He brings state quarters for my sister's lame collection. She shrieks like they are diamonds. Finally, he guides me down the slippery driveway to his car, engine running, heat on high so I won't be cold. He says, "Girl, you look amazing. That sweater makes your boobs look way bigger."

[campionsayn1]

Poisoned Apples, by Christine Heppermann: short prompts

The Woods

The Never-Ending Story

The Wicked Queen’s Legacy

Abercrombie Dressing Room

Sleeping Beauty’s Dressing Room

Photoshopped Poem

Prince Charming

Brief History of Feminism

Suburban Legends

First Anorexic

A Shape Magazine Fairy Tale

Retelling

BFF

Blow Your House In

Mannequins Make Me Feel Like a Failure

If Tampons Were For Guys

The Giant’s Daughter at Spring Formal

Anorexic Eats a Salad

Witch’s Disenchantment

Sweet Nothings

Weight Watchers

To My Sleep, Wherever You Are

First Semester Haiku

Vindictive Punctuation 

The Elves and the Anorexic

Runaway

You go, girl!

The Little Mermaid

Health Class

Ugly Stepsister

Transformation

Boy Toy Villanelle

Rapunzel

Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board

Nature Lesson

Red-Handed

Finders, Keepers

Gingerbread

What She Heard the Waitress Say

Going Under

Life Among the Swans

Spotless

The Beast

Bird Girl

Assassin

View From the Balcony

Pink Champagne

[ameliabloomerproject]

To tell your story even if it seems no one wants to hear it; to refuse to accept shame; to stop questioning yourself and start questioning the rules instead: these are goals I set for Addie, the narrator of my novel-in-verse Ask Me How I Got Here. They are, to be honest, my goals as well. Each year the Amelia Bloomer Project book list reassures girls and young women that the struggle to embrace who they are and speak up for what they believe in is not one they have to undertake alone. I’m so grateful for the opportunity to lend Addie’s voice to this supportive chorus. Because it’s true—we really are stronger together.

Christine Heppermann, author of Ask Me How I Got Here, a 2017 Amelia Bloomer List selection

The Amelia Bloomer List is a project of the American Library Association’s Feminist Task Force. To learn more about the Amelia Bloomer Project, you can visit our blog.