"America's not really a melting pot. It's more like one of those divides metal plates with separate sections for starch, meat, and veggies." Trying to sneak in some reading at this teacher training but it's hard when the book keeps grabbing me by the brain and dragging me deeper into its cognition.

Young Adult Literary Box was waiting on my doorstep. Dystopian Science Fiction? You read my mind. And my heart. #LYA02 #youngadult #YA #sciencefiction #dystopia

"But by far the worst thing we do to males--by making them feel they have to be hard--is that we leave them with very fragile egos. The harder a man feels compelled to be, the weaker his ego is."