I doubt trees are ever told to 'be the screwed-up ninth-grader.' ✨ Lau…

Laurie Halse Anderson
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I doubt trees are ever told to 'be the screwed-up ninth-grader.' ✨ Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). Speak, p.153, Macmillan
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