Irene Muchemi-Ndiritu’s debut novel, LUCKY GIRL (324 pp., Dial Press, paperback, $18), is a coming-of-age story about a privileged but sheltered teenager in Kenya, Soila, who is eager for escape. She wants to leave behind the slums and poverty of Nairobi for the United States, a country she naïvely believes
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Portugal police end latest search for clues of missing British girl
Police search teams prepare to set out from an operation tent near Barragem do Arade, Portugal, Wednesday May 24, 2023. Joao Matos/AP hide caption toggle caption Joao Matos/AP Police search teams prepare to set out from an operation tent near Barragem do Arade, Portugal, Wednesday May 24, 2023. Joao Matos/AP
A judge says a high school can require a trans girl to dress as a boy for graduation
JACKSON, Miss. — A federal judge says he will not block a Mississippi school district from requiring a transgender girl to dress as boy for high school graduation. U.S. District Judge Taylor McNeel filed his order late Friday after holding a hearing on a lawsuit that the American Civil Liberties
An 8-year-old girl died after being detained by U.S. Border Patrol
A border patrol agent speaks to people who were apprehended in Yuma, Arizona on May 11 a the U.S. border as Title 42 expired. The agency said on Wednesday that an 8-year-old girl died after being detained. Mario Tama/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mario Tama/Getty Images A border patrol
Meghan Markle Once Considered Herself a ‘Daddy’s Girl’: Meet Her Dad Thomas and Mom Doria Ragland
Ever since Meghan Markle and Prince Harry announced their engagement in November 2017, fans have wanted to know everything there is to know about the former actress, including her parents. While Meghan was raised in Los Angeles by her mother, Doria Ragland, and her father, Thomas Markle, her parents split
When Getty began losing her vision as a girl, she was told her life was over. Wrong!
Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame says she could not imagine “what the future had in store.” She faced sorrow — but ultimately triumphed. She is the new chair of the U.N. committee for disability rights. (Image credit: Ernest Ankomah for NPR) Source link
‘The Starling Girl’ Review: As the Spirit Moves
In the fundamentalist Christian enclave where “The Starling Girl” takes place, Jem Starling (Eliza Scanlen) is a sensitive 17-year-old who nonetheless cannot escape the idea that she is prone to selfishness. The source of that particular reproach is often the teenager’s intransigent mother, Heidi (Wrenn Schmidt), but beyond parental scolding,
Olympic gold medalist says mom challenged her before viral race at son’s school: ‘You can’t be serious girl!’
Three-time Olympic gold medalist Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce went viral in March after a video of her dusting the other moms in her son’s class during a friendly race began circulating online. But now, the accomplished Jamaican sprinter revealed that one mom was bold enough to challenge her in the days leading
'Warrior Girl Unearthed' revisits the 'Firekeeper's Daughter' cast of characters
Warrior Girl Unearthed is a gripping follow-up to Angeline Boulley’s much-lauded debut, Firekeeper’s Daughter. Here, we return to Sugar Island and meet the next generation of girls in the Firekeeper family. High school student Perry had a glorious Summer of Slack all planned out, full of fishing, teasing her go-getter
‘Peter Pan & Wendy’ Review: A New Girl in Neverland
“Peter Pan & Wendy” is a case study in one of the agonies of growing up: the realization that some of the entertainment that tickled us as youngsters — as in the many troubling scenes in Walt Disney’s 1953 animated adaptation of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan novel, including the ditty