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with each track as a theme

" - Lee Gutkind

She is managing editor of Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction and a podcast host for the New Books Network's Literature channel

There is also an undercurrent of dark humor

A Kite for Melia Author|Dave O'Hare with each track as aA girl's desire to fly a kite dovetails with her grief over losing a pet in this beautifully illustrated picture book. When Melia, a girl with light brown skin and curly hair, asks older children if she can fly one of their kites, they tell her to make her own. She doesn't know how, so she goes to the library to find out. There, she discovers a book about kites and uses it to make a beautiful triangular creation with a bow and long tail. At first, it