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What she does: Goes to the bookstore and buys Vicious

‘I miss you.’

I smile, but my liрs fееl twitсhy. ‘Me too. You’re my one good thing.’

‘You’re my vеry bad habit.’

I do! I’m also assuming that you’d like YA books with Latinx main characters as well.

YA Books Set in Latin America

The Queen of Water by Laura Resau with Maria Virginia Farinango

The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba’s Greatest Abolitionist by Margarita Engle

The Illuminated Forest by Edwin Fontanez

Finding Miracles by Julia Alvarez (half Latina, half Jewish MC) 

Wanderlove by Kristen Hubbard (she is not an #ownvoices writer but she researched and pulled from her experiences as a travel writer and backpacking in Latin America)

Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim (July 2019)

“I turned my nightmares into fireflies and caught them in a jar.” 

For adults, the appeal is Sir Patrick Stewart doing a kid’s educational bit in full Shakespearean dress and style; there’s a delightful cognitive dissonance between the very serious presentation and the very simple content.

For very small children, it’s educational: this is the letter “B”; here’s how it’s shaped; here’s some words you know that start with it. Oh, and here’s a word you may not be familiar with that starts with it, so you can recognize that it’s the sound that matters, and not whatever other connection you made between the other two words.

For older kids: you’ve probably heard that “to be or not to be?” speech, or at least part of it, so you can enjoy some of the parody the adults are watching. Also, here’s how to describe how a letter is made - how to teach young siblings who don’t read yet, how to explain both the shape and the sound.

For kids with dyslexia: here’s how you differentiate a “B” from a P or D or E. You may have to go slowly and look carefully at the exact shapes that make up the whole, but there are differences and you can learn to recognize them. 

For teens or young college students: In addition to whichever parts of those are relevant to you, here’s what Shakespearean acting sounds like. Here’s how to enunciate clearly and slowly, so your audience can understand terms they may not recognize and still follow the gist of what you’re saying. If you’re reading Shakespeare in school, try sounding it out like this and see if that helps it make sense.