From Here Children's Olympics Books Some bonds will grow even

Some bonds will grow even deeper

when burgeoning colonialism gave rise to increasingly sinister evaluations of bodies and skin color

Jennette recounts all this in unflinching detail—just as she chronicles what happens when the dream finally comes true

They’re the guards who roam unobtrusively in dark blue suits

and the Big Terrible Thing is an unforgettable memoir that is both intimate and eye-opening―as well as a hand extended to anyone struggling with sobriety

From Here Children's Olympics Books Some bonds will grow evenIn her coming of age memoir, refugee advocate Luma Mufleh writes of her tumultuous journey to reconcile her identity as a gay Muslim woman and a proud Arab turned American refugee. With no word for gay in Arabic, Luma may not have known what to call the feelings she had growing up in Jordan during the 1980s, but she knew well enough to keep them secret. It was clear that not only would her family have trouble accepting her, but trapped in a