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Bookcase Bizarro: MG/YA Book Reviews and Author News, September 2026

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This month, we meet two young Black man who’ve been accepted into prestigious schools (one in the 1960s, the other in the 1990s), who wonder whether the vision of “success” these institutions promote is worth the price it extracts from them, even when their parents have sacrificed everything to get them there.

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