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We Are All So Good at Smiling

Amber McBride

Ages: 14+

Published: 2023

Publisher: Feiwel and Friends/Macmillan

ISBN: 978-1-250-78038-6

Keywords: Depression, African American, Fairytale, Hoodo

Whimsy, a Black teen, has been hospitalized again for severe clinical depression. When her friend Faerry becomes lost in the Forest, she must face the truth that has been buried all along. Mature content