Call Me Athena Ages 12 and up and positivity

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discovers a way to travel into the future

but also enabled willful negligence and profiteering at the expense of our country’s most vulnerable populations—charging us with the broken system we have today

in stories that bear witness to the complexity of America's social fabric--from Black Cleveland neighborhoods to private schools in the middle-class suburbs

But when the Katas' idyllic lifestyle takes a turn for the worse

Call Me Athena Ages 12 and up and positivityThis enchanting novel in verse captures one young womans struggle for independence, equality, and identity as the daughter of Greek and French immigrants in tumultuous 1930s Detroit. Call Me Athena: Girl from Detroit is a beautifully written novel in verse loosely based on author Colby Cedar Smiths paternal grandmother. The story follows Mary as the American born daughter of Greek and French immigrants living in Detroit in the 1930s, creating a