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As requested, the YA collection will soon include a selection of shorter books for reluctant readers that are high-interest, low-vocabulary, and written in a dyslexia-friendly font! So what about whales? Whale , let me tell you! Most of the books that fit this description are published under Orca Soundings or Orca & Anchor (not all; there are also books in the Everyone Can Be A Reader series, which includes abridged classics by Alcott, Brontë, Austen, Stevenson, etc). To dist

So, people have pretty strong opinions about poetry. Some love it and some claim they HATE it. As someone who doesn't read a lot of poetry, I don't think anyone can truly hate it. Surely it's that they don't know how much of what we consume as art IS poetry. Poetry takes on so many different forms. And while some think it MUST rhyme, it doesn't actually have to do anything other than what the poet wants it to do. Some may enjoy reading it while others prefer to hear it spoken