Tag: Poverty

BBNYA 2024 14th Place Finalist ~ My Heart is Hurting by S.E. Reed | #ContemporaryFiction #YoungAdult @BBNYA_Official @The_WriteReads

BBNYA 2024 14th Place Finalist ~ My Heart is Hurting by S.E. Reed | #Contem..

Sometimes, the more a book grabs you, the harder it is to put your feelings into words. Maybe it’s because you connect with it too deeply, or maybe there’s just so much to say that it all gets tangled up in your head. That’s exactly how I feel about My Heart is Hurting. But I’ll do my best.

BBNYA 2024 14th Place Finalist ~ My Heart is Hurting by S.E. Reed | #ContemporaryFiction #YoungAdult @BBNYA_Official @The_WriteReads @WritingWithReed @writingwithreed.bsky.social

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Cecilia or Too Tall to Love by GL Robinson | Book Review

Cecilia or Too Tall to Love by GL Robinson | Book Review

Note: this book contains Book Club Conversation Starters!
What can orphan Cecilia Beaumaris, a too tall, too outspoken gentlewoman with no pretensions to beauty and no fortune, do when the school she has been living in for nearly fifteen years, first as a pupil, then as a teacher, is closed down and she has to leave? She decides to open her own school, of course. Since her distant family is trying to marry her off for wealth, Independent Cecilia devises her own plan.

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