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emotional hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced
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Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes

A delight

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Oh, what a moving and special story! Emotional but hopeful, just how I like it

My only complaint is that I wish the author had addressed the racism and intersectionality of adoption and foster care

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emotional hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes

Beautiful, heartbreaking, sad, and yet full of hope  

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Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Oh, Piper! My darling Piper! This book made me cry and clutch my chest and I just fell in love with the story and it’s fierceness 

The goodness inside:
Children’s academic decathlon
Gifted and talented kids
The isolation of being smarter / more advanced than your peers
Age appropriate discussion of intersectionality and privilege
Young feminists realizing the world is not built to empower and support women and femmes and discovering that systemic oppression is reality and it sucks 
A new baby and a new stepdad and a sister who isn’t around and a mom who can’t give you attention you need
What happens when you focus on honesty instead of always choosing “niceness” 
ADHD / neurodiverse rep
Trans / non-binary rep
Tons of medical content but so fascinating to me because I was previously unaware of precocious puberty
BIG FEELINGS!!!!
Beautiful character growth 

I’m so glad this book was able to tackle these topics in a way that was honest and compelling 

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