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IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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It is the story of eleven year old Pecola Breedlove, a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue eyed children can devastate all others, who prays for her eyes to turn blue, so that she will be beautiful, so people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning and the tragedy of its fulfillment.
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2023.
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English
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"A shy bookworm enlists her charming neighbor to help her score a date, not knowing he's the obscure author she's been corresponding with, in this sparkling and heart-fluttering romance by Kristina Forest. Shy, bookish, and admittedly awkward, Lily Greene has always felt inadequate compared to the rest of her accomplished family, who strive for Black excellence. She dreams of becoming a children's book editor, but she's been frustratingly stuck in...
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