Over the summer, high school senior Grace came out to family and friends as transgender. She hadn’t planned on returning to the football field because she’s a girl now. But the team needs a great kicker and they convince Grace it will work. Senior year will be a time for new friends, old friends, college recruiting visits, wild parties, prom, confusion, despair, pink hair, podcasts, haters, and lots of football!

I enjoyed reading this book. The story is really interesting and touching my heart too. The book is also illustrated nicely. I like the wonderful design of the characters in the book and the abundant details and colors.

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So basically there is a girl named Wren who the dragonmancers want to feed to the dragons, but she escapes and finds a baby dragon, who she names Sky. There is also Ivy, who finds a dream visitor and see's Sunny twice. Then, there is a boy named Leaf and he thinks Wren is dead, so he wants to avenge her by killing dragons. But then he finds out that Wren is still alive, finds Rose, after Stone helps him escape from Ivy's village where the dragonslayer lives. Plus, the dragonslayer is Ivy's dad, and he has a lot of treasure so they take it and try to return it to the dragons.

I read this book because it was a July Indie Next pick and GMA’s book club pick. I listened to the audiobook via Libby and was surprised by the English-accented narration by actress Lucy Boynton (though in retrospect I shouldn’t because of the author’s Irish origin). This book definitely felt like Survivor with more coupling and more cutthroat consequences. I couldn’t look away from the competition of it all and my interest was maintained up until the couple switching. The book had a bit of a lull but finished with what seemed to be an explosion of the seven deadly sins. This was an interesting book that would be good to discuss but also one I’m unlikely to reread.

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It was a cool sneak peak at the end of the Captain Underpants book and it was in comic style and so cool because I just saw the movie recently. Now I want to read the full Dog Man book.

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Spent is a brilliant and funny graphic novel. Alison and her wife have purchased a goat farm in Vermont. At the same time, her wife becomes an internet celebrity, Alison is trying work on her next book but keeps getting distracted. Friends who live in a nearby coop are experimenting with polyamory. Climate change, and current political movements underscore the whole story.

The Deadlands: Survival is a book about adventure, heroism, and finding a place to belong. I enjoyed reading this book because I like dinosaurs and it had an interesting concept. The author knows a lot about dinosaurs, a little bit more than I know about dinosaurs. Just the tiniest bit more. The start of the book was so good that I really wanted to keep reading and barely put it down. I would recommend The Deadlands series to people who like dinosaurs and adventure.