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The #1 YA Memoir that reads like a novel: Underprivileged Overachiever: A Crenshaw Story
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Publishes: 31 Aug 2020
ARC Available on NetGalley: Now!
At age fourteen, I ran away, but not from home—because I never had one to begin with.
At school I participated in every sport, club, and after-school activity, so that when the other kids finally left, I could settle in for the night by my locker.
I spent my childhood dealing with gangs, drugs, violence, and my mother's mental illness, but the real enemy was always poverty.
P.S. Not many Indi authors can get a front cover book blurb from the LA Times:
"OMG. This story... might need a warning label before..." Eric Sondheimer, LA TIMES
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