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When the rules no longer apply, how do you keep your head in the game?


Wyatt has a three-part Plan for Life, and it starts now, at the beginning of seventh grade, with tryouts for his local travel baseball team. A biracial kid in a mostly white town, he’s always…


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1 author picked The Rule of Three as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

“You have it within you to take control of a situation instead of letting it take control of you. Instead of letting anger speak for you, you speak for yourself.”

“We could break the cycle. We could be more than our trauma….I was done being held hostage by smoke. Be the bat, not the ball.”

WOW—this book covers so much ground with such care. It’s really powerful how it shows these racist line-crossing, not-ok incidents kids like Wyatt experience but how messy they are to actually do something about sometimes. I felt his stress so viscerally. I love…

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