Book of the Month: Graceling by Kristin Cashore There’s a lot of young adult books centering around “a girl with powers.” Wow. How quirky and original, I can hear you saying. But Graceling is the example of why that structure works, an example of how self-discovery, trust, and commitment can change the course of the future and, along with its companion sequel Bitterblue, a powerful analogy of the danger in a leader who can lie and be believed. I highly recommend this book, especially if you liked the Hunger Games series, The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson, or characters like Annabeth Chase or Reyna Ramírez-Arellano from the Percy Jackson/Heroes of Olympus series. Overall, though, the world building in this book and in its prequel/sequels (Fire and Bitterblue) are incredible. They have inspired me greatly in fiction writing and in life overall, and they’ll make you grin, laugh, possibly cry, and definitely want to keep reading. Jokes of the Month: What do you call a can opener that doesn’t work? A can’t opener. If you get cold, just go and stand in a corner. They’re usually 90 degrees. Knock knock. Who’s there? Nobel. Nobel who? Nobel. That’s why I knocked. Quotes of the Month: “It seemed funny to me that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.” ― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline - Kate Voltz If you want to write for the Crescent Crier, we would love to see you at one of our virtual meetings, which are every Wednesday at 1:30pm! To come to a meeting, fill out this form: https://forms.gle/TrQ5PqFcDqeE2yiB9, and we’ll send you a link ASAP. If you would like to submit a single article - or anything else like creative writing, an opinion, an art piece, photo or photo series, or something else entirely - then you can do that using this form: https://forms.gle/WAHSoWJuVwK3q5du6. If you want to contact us for any reason, you can email
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