book report / 17 Book Report Notable books by female authors An inspirational African American woman yogi learns acceptance, self-love, and self-care. The author’s wit and love for life are as inspirational as her yoga instruction. After witnessing her friend's death by a police officer, 16-year-old Starr Carter's life becomes complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died. A young adult title writ- ten for older teens, this highly topical story is being developed for the screen. More than 20 years of letters, essays, reflections, and interviews with the still incognito Italian author of the enormously popular series that started with My Brilliant Friend. Ferrante contemplates her relationship with psycho- analysis, the cities she has lived in, motherhood, feminism, and her childhood. From 2014 to 2015, Mexican writer Luiselli worked as a translator for the U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services in New York, where she surveyed unaccompanied and undocumented minors who fled Central American for the United States. This book is a meditation on the harrowing circumstances that brought the children to the United States, and their uncertain futures. Working in the Condé Nast Building for Nylon, Teen Vogue, Glamour and Lucky magazines sounds like an ambi- tious young woman’s dream, right? Yet, this same young woman is ad- dicted to amphetamines. Her crashing and burning makes her an even bigger media star, but the fun has to stop so she can write this book. Come find these books and other good reads at your library. Win One of These Books! Simply take a selfie reading Matters Maga- zine and post it to Instagram or Facebook with #MattersBookReport by November 10. We'll draw five lucky winners. Every Body Yoga: Let Go of Fear, Get On the Mat, Love Your Body by Jessamyn Stanley Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions by Valeria Luisella How to Murder Your Life: A Memoir by Cat Marnell Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey by Elena Ferrante The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas 51 Baker Street | Maplewood, NJ 07040 | 973-762-1622 | maplewoodlibrary.org www.kentplace.org/admission The upper School aT Brave. BrillianT. BoundleSS. Rigor becomes reward. Honor becomes instinct. Leadership becomes habit. Futures become limitless.