Homeroom Headhunters: The Tribe, the first book in a trilogy of children’s novels by Clay McCloud Chapman, addresses the typical middle school student’s personal struggle to fit in at scho
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Hyperbole is horrible.
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André Aciman is a poet of exile, a chronicler of displacement and its discontents.
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