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A tender and funny contemporary young adult follow-up to the highly praised Atty at Law, Atty in Love explores first love and includes an interview with a real-life animal rights lawyer.When feisty 13 year old Atticus Peale meets a mysterious boy in her Alabama town, she has to make a tough choice between her values as an activist and her first real love.Atticus T. Peale—Atty for short—is thirteen and a self-described advocate for animals. She’s also a vegetarian atheist in the heart of the Deep South’s bible belt, where ribs and guns and church are a way of life, and euthanizing animals is just the way they’ve always dealt with strays.Having already been to court to save her dog Easy, Atty spends a lot of her free time designing plans for a no-kill-shelter in her small Alabama town while juggling school work, hanging out with her best friend Reagan, and battling “the blues.”  But when Atty meets a mysterious boy at the county fair, her world begins to crumble. As it becomes increasingly clear that this boy—with his wild hair and rough hands--works with a captive animal, Atty must choose between her own values and the boy she's fallen for.Atty in Love is about the tough choices that arise when two principled people disagree. It is also a story about what it means to, as Atty likes to say, “contain multitudes”—to love both men and women, to defend your mixed-race family in the American South, to care for someone who experiences the world in fundamentally different ways than you do. Tender and laugh-out-loud funny, the book includes an interview with the Harvard Animal Law and Policy Clinic’s real-life animal law expert Katherine Meyer.

This is Chi Newman's second book. My China, My World is primarily a biography, but also an update and expansion, and sequel to her first book, a travelogue, a history lesson, and an introduction to world diplomacy. Chi's story is so unique, that if it were not true, no one would believe it as fiction. Very few individuals, even among the extremely wealthy, have been to as many countries and met as many people of all economic levels and cultures as Chi has - and been successful at making friends everywhere she's been. Even in retirement, she's a master at bridge, still an aggressive tennis player, and a hostess with both true taste and honest hospitality. Above all Chi believes in and truly lives by the philosophy of "Yin Yang." Her life is proof that there is validity to that ancient and successful philosophy. She has lived in abject and hopeless poverty - and also in luxury apartments and embassy suites. She has walked for miles on dirt paths and ridden in pedicabs. She has owned sporty cars and been chauffeured in government limousines. She has traveled first class and comfort on the finest jet aircraft - and yet nearly lost her life in the crash of a small single engine plane. She has been married to her wonderful husband for decades, but had to hold her family together when he was kidnapped and held for weeks while being threatened with death by Central American revolutionaries. My China, My World will take you on an around the world tour, give you a 60-year history lesson, and show you how government service can be both rewarding and extremely dangerous. Chi Newman's story is truly unique. Anyone with Chinese or Asian family members or connections, or has someone in military or government service (any government), will want to read Chi Newman's unique and uplifting story. Chi Newman, the author of Farewell, My Beijing and now My China, My World

Original English title "A young people's history of the United States" adapted from Howard Zinn's "A people's history of the United States."

Introducing Atticus Peale! A debut middle-grade novel featuring a savvy sleuthing heroine sends a powerful message about standing up for others. Now available in paperback.“Lockette deftly juggles issues of race, ... parental loss, bullying, animal rights, and much more in this touching and at times laugh-out-loud tale of a lawyer-to-be. Atty’s voice is authentic, and her trials (both in court and in school) will resonate with readers. A double-must-read for all animal lovers.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review "A legal thriller in the vein of the Theodore Boone series by Grisham, but with considerably more heart."—Equal Opportunity Today    Atticus Peale is desperately trying to save the life of a dog in the animal shelter where she volunteers. And an alligator in the swamp who only allegedly tried to eat a fisherman. Her father named her after his favorite character, a lawyer in a famous book, but everyone calls her Atty, and no one, except her dad, stepmom, and stepbrother, thinks she's old enough to make a legal case for those who, as Atty points out, can't speak up for themselves. She's learning some law basics from her dad, who is defending an illiterate man in town on a murder charge. But when strange occurrences begin to threaten Atty's efforts, she isn't sure which is more difficult: coming to the defense of the voiceless, countering the sideways looks she and her biracial family get in their Alabama town, or navigating the social scene of middle school. But one thing she is sure of: Jethro Gersham did not kill anyone, and she is determined to find out who did.     Full of grit, curiosity, and all the awkwardness and anxiety that come with turning twelve, Atty at Law will have readers cheering for Atty's success .... and survival!