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These eerie events also echo the stories her great-grandmother told her about her own girlhood in 1900s Mexico

He says he knows how to break the curse – but only if Annie promises to stop the practice of whaling forever

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The White Hot by Quiara Alegría Hudes Halli's Picks and the importance of librariesThe story of a runaway mothers ten days of freedomand the pain, desire, longing, and wonder we find on the messy road to enlightenmentfrom Pulitzer Prize winner Quiara Alegra Hudes. April is a young mother raising her daughter in an intergenerational house of unspoken secrets and loud arguments. Her only refuge is to hide away in a locked bathroom, her ears plugged into an ambient soundscape, and a mantra on her lips: dead inside. That is, until one