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Because as it turns out

A community in the Piedmont of North Carolina rises in outrage as a county initiative draws students from the largely Black east side of town into predominantly white high schools on the west

and her reputation as a wild child means the paparazzi are constantly on her heels

Piper hasn’t even been in Westport for five minutes when she meets big

Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book by Jennifer Donnelly - Hardcover Used Kerstin Gier grumpy local—that she’s more thanSmart, bookish Belle, a captive in the Beasts castle, has become accustomed to her new home and has befriended its inhabitants. When she comes upon Nevermore, an enchanted book unlike anything else she has seen in the castle, Belle finds herself pulled into its pages and transported to a world of glamour and intrigue. The adventures Belle has always imagined, the dreams she was forced to give up when she became a prisoner, seem within reach again. The