Excuse Me While I Ugly CryQuinn keeps lists of everything from the days she's ugly cried, to 'Things That I Would Never Admit Out Loud' and all the boys she'd like to kiss. Her lists keep her sane. By writing her fears on paper, she never has to face them in real life. That is, until her journal goes missing Then an anonymous account posts one of her lists on Instagram for the whole school to see and blackmails her into facing seven of her greatest fears, or else her entire

is accused of rape

Pop culture is the Pandora's Box of our lives

teaching the art of self-love and self-nurturing

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and that everyone matters

which she names Historically Responsive Literacy

before discovering reasons to love herself as is

Milo imagines him arriving home to a castle with a drawbridge and a butler

Libertie struggles with where she might find it--for herself and for generations to come

his hunger for souls will bring the world to its knees

years later

Will Smith's transformation from a West Philadelphia kid to one of the biggest rap stars of his era