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We Contain Multitudes

by Sarah Henstra

Ages: 12+

Published: 2019

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company/Hachette

ISBN: 978-0-316-52465-0

Keywords: Child Abuse, Diversity, Dysfunctional Families, LGBTQ, Poetry, Teenagers, Social/Emotional Learning, Friendship

A high school English assignment is the genesis for an unexpected friendship which develops into an even less expected romance in this epistolary novel.