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I See Reality
compiled by Grace Kendall
Ages: 14+
Published: 2016
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux BFYR/Macmillan
ISBN: 978-0-374-30258-0
Keywords: School violence, Race relations, Social/Emotional Learning, Teen pregnancy, Sexual identity, Addiction, Undocumented immigrants, Identity
Sexual identity, racial identity, school violence and living as an undocumented immigrant are among the issues explored in this anthology of prose and graphic format fiction.