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My ideal bookshelf The book series that really got me into reading was the Harry Potter series. I hadn’t been much of a reader beforehand, but suddenly I was immersed in a faraway world filled with magic and adventure. New possibilities opened up for me, books could take me anywhere I wanted; I could escape my boring everyday life and travel through space and time into a million different lives and experiences far more rich in adventure and love and drama and magic than anything I could hope for in the real world. The Harry Potter series showed me how much a book could offer, and ever since then I have loved reading. The School of Good and Evil will always be one of my favorite books; it was a beautifully written book about how appearances don’t make the person. A girl named Sophie was beautiful and looked like a princess, but she was self-centered and only thought of herself. However, Agatha was the town witch, everyone thought she was evil, but she had a heart of gold and valued her friendship with Sophie above everything else. They soon learned that appearances weren’t everything and at the end instead of choosing a prince Agatha chose to save Sophie and their friendship. …show more content…
Freak Boy is a daring story about transgender teen trying to be accepted in this world and trying to find out who he is. Lies My Girlfriend Told Me is not one of my favorite stories, but is certainly one of the most memorable. The plot follows a young lesbian who finds herself dating the most sought after girl in the school. These stories were the first LGBTQ+ books I’d ever read and they led me to love stories like them. Freak Boy also sheds light on some of the struggles LGBTQ+ kids have to go through and not enough people realize how many hardships they

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