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Hope Nation: YA Authors Share Personal Moments of Inspiration by Rose Brock
4.0
"The truth is, we never really get fixed; instead, we try to make peace, daily, with who and what we are. We learn to embrace the glorious, imperfect whole rather than punishing ourselves because of our flawed parts." -Before and After by Libba Bray
This anthology of essays and short stories all center on the theme of hope. This collection was pulled together after the 2016 election and published in February 2018, a time when many of us needed hope. I had never heard of this until @thetownieteacher recommended it on Instagram this summer. Surprise, surprise, I took much longer than the allotted time to finish reading this collection of essays.
Some of the essays were fantastic ([a:Libba Bray|2526|Libba Bray|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1206563678p2/2526.jpg], [a:Nic Stone|13525503|Nic Stone|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1473479285p2/13525503.jpg], and [a:Atia Abawi|7228730|Atia Abawi|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1475509029p2/7228730.jpg]) while others didn't quite pull me in the way I wanted them to. Regardless, this is a beautiful collection of essays centered around a topic that so often we want to write about but simply don't know how. A few of the essays I could see working into my classroom curriculum, which was the whole point of the summer reading, and some of them are too near and dear to my heart to pick apart with a room full of 12 and 13 year olds. This is a beautiful collection of essays and one that I am glad to have read, even if it did take me a solid four months to get through.
This anthology of essays and short stories all center on the theme of hope. This collection was pulled together after the 2016 election and published in February 2018, a time when many of us needed hope. I had never heard of this until @thetownieteacher recommended it on Instagram this summer. Surprise, surprise, I took much longer than the allotted time to finish reading this collection of essays.
Some of the essays were fantastic ([a:Libba Bray|2526|Libba Bray|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1206563678p2/2526.jpg], [a:Nic Stone|13525503|Nic Stone|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1473479285p2/13525503.jpg], and [a:Atia Abawi|7228730|Atia Abawi|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1475509029p2/7228730.jpg]) while others didn't quite pull me in the way I wanted them to. Regardless, this is a beautiful collection of essays centered around a topic that so often we want to write about but simply don't know how. A few of the essays I could see working into my classroom curriculum, which was the whole point of the summer reading, and some of them are too near and dear to my heart to pick apart with a room full of 12 and 13 year olds. This is a beautiful collection of essays and one that I am glad to have read, even if it did take me a solid four months to get through.