Books/Poetry

I'm a 12-year-old Muslim girl. Where are people like me in the books I read?
Marwa Bacare, a rising Boston seventh grader, writes about the impact of growing up without Muslim girls as literary heroes.

‘How True It All Felt’: Beverly Cleary Helped Us Understand Ourselves
Beverly Cleary, the children's author who died last week, never forgot what it felt like to be a child, where so much of life is beyond your control, writes Laura...

'Flaming Out Like Dreams At Dawn': Verses From A Somerville Poet
April is National Poetry Month. Poet Ed Meek is inspired by the skies of the Outer Cape and the streets of Davis Square.