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I'm Starting off a great fun summer


-Lenah

The Hunger Games

ITS ABOUT katniss and shes very poor but when she enter the hunger games she and peeta survie from the other kids killing each other and they love each other so people fall for it and they survive and go back home and become rich.


-Lenah



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Pride

On this last day of June, we wrap up a monumental Pride Month.
Did you hear the big news?


Last week, one of our Us, Readers asked how she could support the LGBTQ community, so we rounded up some ideas for her and anyone else who may be wondering.


Some local organizations with great resources for LGBTQ teens (and pre-teens!):
The Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Youth  http://www.bagly.org/
Mystic LGBTQ Youth Support Network  http://www.queermystic.org/
Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network  http://www.glsen.org/


For resources a little closer to home, find out if your school has a Gay-Straight Alliance.  If it doesn't, see what you can do about starting one! 
Some advice from the GSA Network  https://www.gsanetwork.org/get-involved/start-gsa
and from the ACLU  https://www.aclu.org/how-start-gay-straight-alliance-gsa


And, of course, there are always books!
(this link is just a selection of what's available -- feel free to ask your librarian for more!)


-Librarian Jamie

A mango shaped space by Wendy Mass

Mia is a unique girl how can see colors. She has never told anyone about her seeing colors. She is afraid because of her third grade incident. Mia thinks of her colors as a good think but when she tells her parents about the colors they think of it as a bad thing. This book is very heartwarming book and will make everyone cry.


-Fahia



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The Mortal Instruments: City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare

WARNING: MAY SPOIL PARTS OF THE FIRST BOOK FOR YOU!

This is the second book in The Mortal Instruments Series, a set of books in which a girl, Clary, is thrown into a magical world of vampires, werewolves, faeries, demons, and Shadowhunters, the protectors of humankind.

This book puts more focus on the strange powers that Jace and Clary have, and Jace's relationship with his father, who is, coincidentally, the bad guy.
Jace is cast under suspicion for consorting with Valentine, and his word is worth nothing to those who accuse him.
Meanwhile, Clary is dealing with her mom, who has been unconcious since Valentine sent the Ravener to attack her in book 1.

Of course, the bad guy has furthered his plans, and raised the Great Demon of Fear, which takes the shape of whatever scares you most.

While this book does have your typical black-and-white characters: Clary, Jace, Alec, and Isabelle are the good guys, Valentine is evil, and has no good in him, it has plenty of people to cover the middle ground: faeries, Downworlders, and even the Clave.

This is an action-adventure story with some mystery involved, but it is also about finding yourself, family, trust, and realizing that the adult figures, and those who have been in charge as long as you've known, can be wrong, and can be more selfish and blind than you ever would have thought.

This is an above-four-star book!


-Olivia



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What Else Is New

It's summer super happy i have the best summer planned.
-going to dye my hair
-went to world cup (Germany-France) (Germany WON)
-going to new summer camps
- going to the summer camp my mom runs


-Zaira