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Starting his fifth school in five years, Osei Kokote, a diplomat's son, hoping to survive his first day becomes friends with Dee, the most popular girl in school, but Ian is determined to destroy the budding friendship.
1970s, in a suburban D.C. schoolyard. Starting his fifth school in five years, Osei Kokote, a diplomat's son, hopes to survive his first day. He becomes friends with Dee, the most popular girl in school. But one student, Ian, is determined to destroy the budding friendship between the black boy and the golden girl.
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Hogarth Shakespeare project is a 11-book series with 11 released primary works first released in 2012 with contributions by Anne Tyler, Jeanette Winterson, and Margaret Atwood.
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It's a retelling of Othello set in the sixth grade. All the tensions of youth and racism are there. And it's heart breaking and brilliantly rendered.
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