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He worked determinedly to find a new home for Black Seminoles, who had unresolved and changing statuses during this time of the mid-to-late s. Horse was constantly negotiating to encourage protection, treaties, land grants, and autonomy for his people. Engravings, photographs, illustrations, and painting adorn most of the full-color pages, with chapters providing just enough information to feel thorough without feeling overwhelming.

Well laid-out and engaging, this biography shows the significant impact John Horse had on the rights, recognition, freedom, and protection of Black Seminoles, who were considered slaves by Americans and Seminoles.

The volume wraps up with additional information on battles, places of refuge, rescues, and expeditions. I started writing my first novel when I was twelve.

It was about murderers, because sure, and despite having no actual world-building, it did include a magical language I painstakingly crafted and a very intricate definitely too intricate plot. Needless to say, it was not a good book. But something I do think it had going for it was the voice.

I was twelve, and my characters were thirteen. Fast forward, and my debut releases this month. There are no murderers this time around fortunately or unfortunately, depending on your perspective , but I did write another young protagonist. While querying, I got several rejections because agents did not think Maisie sounded her age, and I understand why.

My protagonist is much more confident than I was at twelve, and is very independent. And she needed to be self-aware enough to understand when her careless actions caused harm, because that is the crux of the story. When I first got the feedback that Maisie sounded too old, I worried.

I considered re-writing the novel from the ground up before sending out more queries. But then I thought back to my twelve-year-old self.

Whether or not I was actually mature on the outside, I felt like I was on the inside. I was convinced that, once I finished my murderer novel, it would immediately find an agent, become a bestseller, and land me a five-movie deal lol. And then there were the twelve-year-olds who were already achieving unimaginable things. I was so jealous of the occasional teen who got a book deal.

I used to watch the kids on Disney Channel and wonder what it was like to have a full-blown career as a middle schooler. All this to say: I realized there is no universal twelve-year-old. Children mature at different rates.

They have different life experiences and personalities that lead them to thinking and speaking in their own unique ways. But if you believe a bold and confident child protagonist is necessary for your story, go for it!

She began writing at the age of twelve, and is grateful to not be debuting with the angsty assassin book she toiled over in her teens. When she is not writing, she can be found teaching ESL or gushing about her three cats to anyone who will listen. Twelve-year-old Maisie is an artist. In desperation to make things right, Maisie runs away to London to reconnect with her adult brother, hoping he might be the key to saving the shop.

Today as I write this post there are tons of calls for book banning and, yes, even book burning happening in our country. There have been calls to ban books, burn books, to jail and imprison librarians, and some librarians have now even had people from their community show up at their house and threaten them. These are indeed scary times.

Here in the state of Texas, there is a list of around books going around and the things that those books have in common is this: they are all written by marginalized people who have always had to fight hard to have a voice. They are written to share personal stories about what it means to have to fight hard to justify your existence, to navigate this world safely and to be seen and heard in a world that wants to oppress, control and sometimes outright wipe you out of existence.

They are books about sex education, gender and gender identity, racism, and there are even a few books about teen rights thrown in there. There are lots of posts about the books on the lists going around there as well. But today, I want to talk to you about being a librarian and working with youth and how this is the scariest time to do both.

Please note, I am a public librarian, not a school librarian. So while I have some fears, it is nothing compared to what my many friends who are school librarians have.

And also, this is a personal post drawing on my 29 years of experience working with youth, mainly teenagers, in a public library. I buy books for kids and teens. I have for 29 years now. Sometimes, those books talk about sex. Do I think teens should be having sex? Not personally, no. The reproductive system is one of many systems in the body and understanding how your body works is actually good.

Teens have questions and they go looking for answers, whether we want them to or not, so it is imperative that they have resources that give them solid, factual answers. Yes, yes I do. They deserve to exist in this world without fearing for their safety. They deserve to read stories about kids who are just like them, because all people do. They also deserve to read books about people like their parents, because some parents are LGBTQ and they too have a right to parent their children and share stories with their children that have characters that are like them.

The presence of LGBTQ content alone does not make a book pornographic any more than watching a Hallmark love story where two characters date, fall in love, and kiss does not make it pornographic. Do I buy books that talk about racism? To not buy books that talk about racism would be a lie. I believe that knowledge is a powerful thing, and that even when the truth is dark and hard, we must know it.

Even in the whitest of white communities that I have worked in, there were always Black and Latinx and Asian American kids and they too deserve to have their truths told, their stories heard, and their feelings centered just as much as the white majority in those neighborhoods. As a Christian, it is one of my main parenting goals, I want my children to wrestle with hard truths and come out on the other side as compassionate people who live as close to the teachings of Jesus Christ as possible.

And I want my children to help build a world where the Black and other children of color are nurtured and valued and respected and safe. And I want to stop hearing the children of color that I work with day in and day out share their heartbreaking stories of the amount of hate they receive on a daily basis and the stories of how it began when they were 4 or 5.

I want to stop hearing them talk about how they fear dying at a young age. The things that these books have in common is that they are book that talk about sex, or books that talk about the LGBTQ community, or books that talk about racism, or books that talk about being a survivor of sexual violence. They are even going so far as to call people who buy these books for libraries pornographers. I am a public librarian who has worked with school librarians for years. Some of my best friends are school librarians.

Like all teachers, and school librarians are almost always teachers, these are people who have dedicated their lives to serving our youth. They work long, hard hours and spend lots of their personal money to help our kids become the best versions of themselves.

And now they are doing so in the midst of a pandemic while certain members of the public call them pornographers and ask that they be jailed and sometimes are even showing up at their houses and calling them horrific things in front of their own kids.

Are there books in the library that you might find offensive? Yes, yes there are. That is and has always been one of the most fundamental tenets of a democratic society. It was so important that they made it a part of the 1st Amendment to our Constitution. We really do. One of the books on the big Texas banned list — which has like titles — is a book called Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson.

It is a memoir written in poetry by the bestselling author sharing her experiences of surviving sexual violence in her life.

It is her real life story written by a real person about their real personal journey. I read it out loud to Tim, Riley and Scout when it came out.

I read it out loud with tears streaming down my face and we talked about what it meant to me, also a person who experienced sexual violence. We talked about how the words moved me, made me feel seen, and helped me heal. It helped them to understand what had happened to me and how it informed who I was today.

It was one of the most powerful book moments of my life. Another book on the list is Ask the Passengers by A. This was also a profound book moment for me where I came to understand that gay people were just people and their lives were hard because society had chosen to hate them and that by making different choices we, as a society, could make their life easier. And I have vowed to live my life differently because I think that all people deserve to live a life with health, love, and basic human rights.

While these books may not be right personally for others, they were life changing and life affirming for me. They made me a newer, better person. And some of the books on this list may not be the right books for me, but they will be the right books for someone else.

Book banning is one of the precursors to authoritarianism. But the Nazis did then and they continue to think they have the right to decide for everyone what is right, what is best, what is noble, what is holy, what is legal, and what is good. And make no mistake, though we may not be calling them Nazis today, they are once again rising. We have done this before, I wish we would have learned not to do it again.

Did you know that last year was one of the deadliest years on record for transgender people? No, if they cared about girls safety they would pass anti-domestic violence bills and push harder sentences for actual sexual violence which is most often perpetrated by straight men. They just hate trans people and the LGBTQ community and they want you to hate them too because if they can convince you that you share a common enemy, then you will overlook all the real harm that they are doing.

Meanwhile, they are whipping up hate against the trans community to get your vote and members of the trans community are being beaten and killed in record numbers. In the press they are calling us pornographers and groomers and vilifying us.

They fear knowledge. They know that true democracy depends on an informed, educated and empowered public exercising their rights. So they try to limit the education. They try to limit the rights. And they try to limit the exercise of those rights see all the anti-voting laws being passed. We know that, unfortunately, sometimes they are. Sometimes a teacher or a coach or your best friend takes advantage of your children.

That is evil and vicious and the most ultimate betrayal of all. But this is not about the books on a library shelf, this is something vile and insidious. As someone who has worked with youth for 29 years I am here to tell you that there is nothing harder than seeing an LGBTQ kid lose the sparkle in their eye as they realize that this world well and truly hates them.

I want kids to survive adolescence and thrive. Every last one of them. I want them to learn and grow and be the best version of themselves and to help make the world a better place for us all. That is why I have dedicated my life to building expansive, diverse, factual, and inclusive book collections in library after library after library.

I have been a Christian long enough to think we even all agree on what it means to be a Christian. It has strong echoes of what happened in the past. And whatever our political, philosophical or religious differences are, I hope that we can all agree that Nazis are still bad and democracy is still the goal. And please, look at the people in your schools. These are your friends, your neighbors, your aunts and your uncles. These are the kids that you babysat as kids and the people that babysat your kids.

Look at them staying up late at night and grading papers. Look at them spending their own money to buy tissues and pencils for your kids. Look at them standing in the rain as a crossing guard to make sure your kids gets to and from school safely. Think about all that they have invested in your kids, in your community. Think of who the real servants are in your communities, and protect them.

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Best phd dissertation chapter advice. Page Number and Citation : 88 Cite this Quote. Part 3, Chapter 8 Quotes. Page Number and Citation : Cite this Quote.

Part 3, Chapter 13 Quotes. Related Characters: Mr. Freeman speaker , Melinda Sordino. Part 3, Chapter 14 Quotes. Freeman , Rachel Bruin. Part 3, Chapter 19 Quotes. Part 4, Chapter 5 Quotes. Related Symbols: Lips.

Part 4, Chapter 7 Quotes. Part 4, Chapter 11 Quotes. Part 4, Chapter 13 Quotes. Related Themes: Isolation, Loneliness, and Depression. Part 4, Chapter 22 Quotes. Part 4, Chapter 25 Quotes. Part 4, Chapter 26 Quotes. Related Characters: Melinda Sordino speaker , Mr. Freeman speaker. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance. Part 1, Chapter 1: Welcome to Merryweather High.

Melinda sees her old friends, with whom she used to be in a clique called the At a school assembly, after hesitating too long as she looks for somewhere to sit, Melinda is reprimanded by Mr. Neck, her future social studies teacher. Another isolated student, who introduces Part 1, Chapter 2: Our Teachers are the Best The school day continues and Melinda describes the periods. She names her English teacher Hairwoman because of her ridiculously frizzy orange-and-black Part 1, Chapter 3: Spotlight.

As Melinda tries to run away, Mr. Neck stops her. She is unable to explain why she Part 1, Chapter 4: Sanctuary. Neck, her She gets a tree, and though she believes that the assignment will be Melinda sits in Spanish class, bored once again. Part 1, Chapter 6: Home. The talkative Heather has been attempting to befriend her, while all her other former Melinda begins to discuss her home life, which mainly involves avoiding her parents and ordering takeout In her bedroom, Melinda describes how out of place she feels in it, having decorated it with her friends As her father pours himself a drink and microwaves leftovers, Melinda decides to nap rather than doing her homework.

She asserts that she is powerless against As she rests, Melinda bites her lips and looks in the mirror, disgusted by what she sees. She is Part 1, Chapter 7: Our Fearless Leader. Melinda hides in a bathroom and watches as a student who is cutting class outwits the Part 1, Chapter 8: Fizz Ed. Melinda describes gym with loathing, recounting how she has to change in a bathroom stall and Part 1, Chapter 9: Friends. Melinda encounters Rachel in the bathroom, and scornfully describes how her former best friend has changed Part 1, Chapter Heathering.

Now, however, she finds Part 1, Chapter Burrow. Melinda has a difficult day after being lectured by Hairwoman over her missing homework the teacher Part 1, Chapter Devils Destroy. Melinda plans to use the distraction of the Homecoming pep rally in order to clean up Melinda describes the pep rally, from the band to the cheerleaders to the back-flipping Blue Devils Part 1, Chapter Cheerleaders.

She notes their simultaneous promiscuity and purity, and marvels at the As the rally ends, someone knocks Melinda down three rows of bleachers.

She fantasizes about creating a clique called the Anti-Cheerleaders, which Part 1, Chapter The Opposite of Inspiration is Since the pep rally, Melinda has used watercolors to paint trees that have been struck by lightning. Freeman has Part 1, Chapter Acting.

Part 1, Chapter Dinner Theater. She imagines her mother as Part 1, Chapter Blue Roses. Melinda discusses biology class, which is taught by Ms. Keen, whom Melinda believes could have been Melinda next discusses algebra, to which she arrives quite late with the help of a forged When Mr.

Stetman calls on Melinda , she tries not to answer, using one of her fake smiles. Stetman, however, forces Part 1, Chapter Halloween. Part 1, Chapter Name Name Name. Melinda reports that the school board has changed the Merryweather High mascot from the Devils to In Spanish, they tell Part 1, Chapter The Marthas.

Melinda mockingly describes the Marthas, the clique that Heather is trying to join. It is composed She pleads with Melinda to help, and although Melinda is disappointed with the shabbiness of the room, she agrees As the Marthas enter, Melinda exits.

But she watches as the Marthas make fun of her lips and then force Alone in the bathroom, Melinda cries. Part 1, Chapter Nightmare. On an unspecified date between Halloween and Thanksgiving, Melinda is horrified to see IT in the hallway flirting with a cheerleader.

As IT passes Part 1, Chapter My Report Card. Melinda reports her grades to the reader; they are generally poor, except for a B in Part 2, Chapter 2: Closet Space. Although she Part 2, Chapter 4: Job Day. Merryweather High holds Job Day, which Melinda mercilessly mocks. After taking an aptitude test, she is given a bewildering array of options Part 2, Chapter 5: First Amendment.

As he fumes, Melinda doodles an apple tree, and thinks about the linoleum block that she is trying to Neck reacts with fury and cuts off debate. Part 2, Chapter 6: Giving Thanks. Melinda refers to the floating turkey as a Melinda hides in her bedroom and reads magazines as her parents fight. When she emerges, she Part 2, Chapter 7: Wishbone.

After several attempts, Melinda decides to skip her next class in order to work on her bird artwork, and Part 2, Chapter 8: Peeled and Cored. In biology class, Melinda is studying fruit. The students are instructed to dissect an apple, and while David Petrakis Petrakis is fighting for his freedom of speech in Mr. As Melinda watches, David turns on a tape recorder every time Mr. Neck speaks, in order to As she waits for her guidance counselor in the school office, Melinda eavesdrops on a conversation between a secretary and a PTA volunteer, and learns that the Part 2, Chapter Wombats Rule!

Heather persuades Melinda to go to the Winter Assembly so that she does not need to sit alone Part 2, Chapter Winter Break. After trying and failing to contact Heather, Melinda decides to pretend to be her friend instead, wondering what Heather would do if her Melinda remembers a portion of the night of the party: how she snuck home later that Part 2, Chapter Hard Labor.