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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.