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Surrender Your Sons | Adam Sass

September 14, 2020 0 Comments

Surrender Your Sons by Adam Sass Flux, Releases September 15th 2020, 392 pages Trigger Warnings: conversion therapy camp; kidnapping; internalized queerphobia/extreme religious queerphobia; suicide; queerphobic emotional and physical abuse/violence; queerphobic

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Interview with Laura Segal Stegman

September 11, 2020 0 Comments

Spoilers alert ahead for Summer of L.U.C.K. by Laura Segal Stegman! About the Author: “Laura Segal Stegman is a Los Angeles-based author and arts publicist whose middle grade debut novel,Summer

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All the Cool Kids Are Reading | Welcoming Courtney Halsey to the Pine Reads Team

September 10, 2020 0 Comments

As a child, I always had a curiosity for words. Armed with a spiral notebook and number 2 pencil everywhere I went, at age 4, I would constantly bug my

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In This Little Corner of the Internet | Welcoming Jackie Balbastro to the Pine Reads Team

September 9, 2020 0 Comments

I’m a late start reader. I mean, I always read books as a child, but around middle school, I stopped reading because I was tired of white characters acting as

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Each of Us a Desert | Mark Oshiro

September 8, 2020 0 Comments

Each of Us a Desert by Mark Oshiro Tor Teen, 2020, 432 pages Trigger Warnings: Murder/death, graphic violence, instances of emotional and physical abuse About the Author: Mark Oshiro is

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Summer of L.U.C.K | Laura Segal Stegman

September 7, 2020 0 Comments

Summer of L.U.C.K. by Laura Segal Stegman Young Dragons Press, 267 pages Trigger Warnings: parental emotional abuse, death of a loved one (off-page), bullying About the Author: “Laura Segal Stegman

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