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If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson
5.0

Read for Life‰ЫЄs Library!

I was apprehensive when I read that this was a retelling of Romeo and Juliet. I don‰ЫЄt typically like retellings, but wow. I kept reading it and imagining the setting as today. Everything fit. So much and so little has changed. How powerful that this book exists. My instinct is to feel like there‰ЫЄs not enough to the story, but that‰ЫЄs not true. It‰ЫЄs just enough. Like memories - you don‰ЫЄt remember hundreds of pages of details. You remember the important bits.