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Middle Grade and YA Author,\xa0Ali Terese\xa0shares her chaotically funny voice and community-oriented message, in\xa0FREE PERIOD,\xa0a cry of protest spotlighting both the undeserved shame young people feel around menstruation and the importance of friendship to all who experience it.\xa0Best friends Helen and Gracie are pranking their way through middle school when a stinky stunt lands them in the front office \u2014 again. Because nothing else has curbed their chaos, the principal orders the best friends to do the unthinkable: care about something,\xa0anything,\xa0to make them\xa0stop!\xa0So, they join the school\u2019s Community Action Club with plans to do as little as humanly possible.\xa0But when Helen is caught unprepared by an early period and bleeds through her pants \u2014 they were gold lam\xe9! \u2014 the girls take over the club\u2019s campaign for maxi pads in bathrooms for all students who menstruate. In the name of period equity, the two friends use everything from over-the-top baked goods to glitter gluing for change. But nothing can prepare them for a clueless school board (ew), an annoying little sister (ugh), and crushes (oh my!).\xa0As Helen and Gracie find themselves closer to change\xa0and\xa0in deeper trouble than ever before, they must decide if they care enough to keep going . . . even if it costs them their friendship.\u201d

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