![]() ![]() Agent: Lauren Abramo, Dystel, Goderich & Bourret. A powerful illustration of the ways that compassion and love can overcome intolerance. ![]() ![]() Ben’s voice shines through with courage and vulnerability as they learn, slowly, to feel valued and deserving of respect. Debut author Deaver portrays Ben’s reaction to the difficult situation, including panic attacks and anxiety, with care and empathy, and readers will be filled with joy and hope as Ben begins to grow toward self-acceptance. Perfect for fans of Adam Silvera and Becky Albertalli, Mason Deavers stunning debut will rip your heart out before showing you how to heal from tragedy and celebrate life in the process.Heartfelt, romantic, and quietly groundbreaking. And as Ben cultivates an art practice and receives the love and support of rediscovered family and of new friends, including handsome neighbor Nathan, they begin to come to terms with their trauma. Together they have to learn how to advance from estranged siblings to a true, caring family while Ben works to complete senior year at a new high school. They’re taken in by their older sister, Hannah, who was also driven out by their conservative and judgmental parents 10 years earlier. In an emotionally complex story about finding acceptance and redefining family, 18-year-old Ben is rejected by their parents when they come out as nonbinary. ![]()
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![]() ![]() So now Tess and her family are taking a chance on Aaron, a thirteen-year-old trumpet player who has been bounced from home to home, and Tess needs a plan of her own-and all the luck she can muster. ![]() Fortunately the islanders have a plan, too: increase the school numbers by having several families take in foster children. The state of Maine has a plan to shut down her island's schoolhouse, which would force Tess's family to move to the mainland-and Tess to leave the only home she has ever known. But Tess is coming to know that it's not always that simple. Especially when it's so easy to let the universe know what you want by touching blue or turning around three times or crossing your fingers. "Why take chances?" says eleven-year-old Tess Brooks. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() a tweetle beetle noodle poodle bottled paddled muddled duddled fuddled wuddled fox in socks, sir! Knox then declares that the game is finished, thanking the Fox for the fun, and walks away while the beetles, a poodle, and the stunned Fox watch. Finally, after the Fox gives an extended dissertation on Tweetle Beetles who fight (battle) with paddles while standing in a puddle inside a bottle (a Tweetle Beetle Bottle Puddle Paddle Battle Muddle), Knox acts on his frustration by stuffing Fox into the bottle, reciting a tongue-twister of his own: When a fox is in the bottle where the tweetle beetles battle with their paddles in a puddle on a noodle-eating poodle, THIS is what they call. ![]() As the book progresses the Fox describes each situation with rhymes that progress in complexity, with Knox periodically complaining of the difficulty of the tongue-twisters. ![]() After taking those four rhyming items through several permutations, more items are added (chicks, bricks, blocks, clocks), and so on. Knox") along with some props (a box and a pair of socks). 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