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Lulu Is A Rhinoceros
by Jason Flom (Author), Allison Flom (Author) and Sophie Corrigan (Artist)
Booktalk: Everyone thinks Lulu is a bulldog, but she knows that can’t be true, because Lulu is a Rhinoceros–that is what she sees staring back at her when she looks in the mirror. But sometimes, being yourself can be a difficult road to walk.
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Long Way Down
by Jason Reynolds (Author)
Booktalk: Will has known about the rules ever since his childhood friend was killed on the playground, and he’s followed the first two: no crying, and no snitching. When his older brother, Shawn, is shot and killed while walking home from the store, Will knows he is expected to follow the final rule and avenge his brother’s death. He knows where Shawn keeps his gun, and he thinks he knows who the shooter is: a member of a rival gang named Riggs. Even if Will has never used a gun–never even held a gun before–rules are rules. But in the elevator on the way down to meet Riggs, Will encounters family and friends who died playing by the rules, and now Will has to decide what he is going to do when the elevator reaches its final stop.
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IN CASE YOU AIN’T KNOW
gunshots make everybody
deaf and blind especially
when they make somebody
dead.
Best to become invisible
in times like these.
Everybody knows that.
Even Tony flew away.
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