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In an important scene in the new middle-grade graphic novel Opting Out, 12-year-old Saachi’s father is giving her a pep talk: “You don’t start off good at something. You get better and better until it changes! Then the cycle repeats.”
Saachi is having a hard time in seventh grade, though neither of her
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