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and Rye will be forced to decide where he stands

For Flavia

" And to all the familiar things in the softly lit room-to the picture of the three little bears sitting on chairs

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Inheritance: A Visual Poem Fiction_Gift_Guide and Rye will be forcedThey tell me to fix my hair. And by fix, they mean straighten, they mean whiten; but how do you fix this shipwrecked history of hair? In her most famous spoken word poem, author of the Pura Belpr winning novel in verse The Poet X Elizabeth Acevedo embraces all the complexities of Black hair and Afro Latinidadthe history, pain, pride, and powerful love of that inheritance. Paired with full color illustrations by artist Andrea Pippins in a format that