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For fans of Click and Brave, this touching coming-of-age middle grade graphic novel debut follows an autistic girl who finds friendship where she least expects it and learns to express her true self in a world where everyone defines her by her differences.Twelve-year-old Mia is just trying to navigate a world that doesn’t understand her true autistic self. While she wishes she could stand up to her bullies, she’s always been able to express her feelings through singing and songwriting, even more so with her best friend, Charlie, who is nonbinary, putting together the best beats for her.Together, they've taken the internet by storm; little do Mia’s classmates know that she’s the viral singer Elle-Q! But while the chance to perform live for a local talent show has Charlie excited, Mia isn’t so sure.She’ll have to decide whether she’ll let her worries about what other people think get in the way of not only her friendship with Charlie, but also showing everyone, including the bullies, who she is and what she has to say.

From the creator of Speak Up! comes a fun, endearing, and relatable companion graphic novel that follows Mia, who’s autistic, as she manages friends, school drama, and her new blended family. Perfect for readers of Click and The Tryout!Mia and her mom just moved in with her mom’s boyfriend and his son, Floyd. To say it’s not going well is an understatement. Though Mia and Floyd are classmates, they have nothing in common. She’s also helping a friend run for class representative and another fight against unfair school rules. It’s a lot to manage, especially for Mia, who is autistic and likes to stick to her routine.Floyd isn’t thrilled about the living arrangement, either. The new family situation is awkward, at best. But he doesn’t have time to think about that. Floyd is keeping a big secret from his dad—he’s in a lot of pain, for a while now, and he doesn’t know why. And it’s starting to affect his basketball. His teammates don’t believe him and think he’s making a bigger deal of things.Mia’s and Floyd may be at odds , but can they figure out how to get along both in school and at home…or will their fighting tear everything apart?

Selection of the Crafters’ Choice Book ClubBeautiful natural dyes from plants found in the wild or grown in your own backyard.As more and more crafters are discovering, dyeing your own fabric can yield gorgeous colors. Now master dyer Rebecca Burgess identifies 36 plants that will yield beautiful natural shades and shows how easy it is to make the dyes. Pokeweed creates a vibrant magenta, while a range of soft lavender shades is created from elderberries; indigo yields a bright blue, and coyote brush creates stunning sunny yellows.Gathering Color explains where to find these plants in the wild (and for those that can be grown in your backyard, how to nurture them) and the best time and way to harvest them; maps show the range of each plant in the United States and Canada. For the dyeing itself, Burgess describes the simple equipment needed and provides a master dye recipe. The book is organized seasonally; as an added bonus, each section contains a knitting project using wools colored with dyes from plants harvested during that time of the year. With breathtaking color photographs by Paige Green throughout, Gathering Color is an essential guide to this growing field, for crafters and DIYers; for ecologists and botanists; and for artists, textile designers, and art students.

A new "farm-to-closet" vision for the clothes we wear--by a leader in the movement for local textile economiesThere is a major disconnect between what we wear and our knowledge of its impact on land, air, water, labor, and human health. Even those who value access to safe, local, nutritious food have largely overlooked the production of fiber, dyes, and the chemistry that forms the backbone of modern textile production. While humans are 100 percent reliant on their second skin, it's common to think little about the biological and human cultural context from which our clothing derives.Almost a decade ago, weaver and natural dyer Rebecca Burgess developed a project focused on wearing clothing made from fiber grown, woven, and sewn within her bioregion of North Central California. As she began to network with ranchers, farmers, and artisans, she discovered that even in her home community there was ample raw material being grown to support a new regional textile economy with deep roots in climate change prevention and soil restoration. A vision for the future came into focus, combining right livelihoods and a textile system based on economic justice and soil carbon enhancing practices. Burgess saw that we could create viable supply chains of clothing that could become the new standard in a world looking to solve the climate crisis.In Fibershed readers will learn how natural plant dyes and fibers such as wool, cotton, hemp, and flax can be grown and processed as part of a scalable, restorative agricultural system. They will also learn about milling and other technical systems needed to make regional textile production possible. Fibershed is a resource for fiber farmers, ranchers, contract grazers, weavers, knitters, slow-fashion entrepreneurs, soil activists, and conscious consumers who want to join or create their own fibershed and topple outdated and toxic systems of exploitation..

PRISM AWARDS FINALIST 2021GREAT GRAPHIC NOVELS FOR TEENS - YOUNG ADULT LIBRARY SERVICES ASSOCIATION (YALSA) 2022"When I was in school, everyone got to a certain age where they became interested in talking about only one thing: boys, girls and sex. Me though? I was only interested in comics."Growing up, Rebecca assumes sex is just a scary new thing they will 'grow into' as they get older, but when they leave school, start working and do grow up, they start to wonder why they don't want to have sex with other people.In this brave, hilarious and empowering graphic memoir, we follow Rebecca as they navigate a culture obsessed with sex - from being bullied at school and trying to fit in with friends, to forcing themselves into relationships and experiencing anxiety and OCD - before coming to understand and embrace their asexual identity.Giving unparalleled insight into asexuality and asexual relationships, How To Be Ace shows the importance of learning to be happy and proud of who you are.

Dieses Buch wird klimapositiv hergestellt, cradle-to-cradle gedruckt und bleibt plastikfrei unverpackt.Was dein Pulli mit regenerativer Landwirtschaft zu tun hatHast du dich auch mal gefragt, wo deine Kleidung eigentlich herkommt? Also nicht nur das fertige Teil – sondern alle seine Bestandteile. Die Rohstoffe, aus denen es hergestellt wurde. Die Farbe, die es so besonders macht. Und hast du dich gefragt, wer es designt hat, wer den Stoff webt, der sich so weich auf deiner Haut anfühlt, und wer die Einzelteile zu einem Ganzen vernäht? Was das Verhältnis zu unserer Kleidung betrifft, könnte man sagen: Wir haben den Faden verloren. Oder sogar noch schlimmer: Die Beziehung zu unserer zweiten Haut ist … leider toxisch. Und das im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes. Denn einerseits haben wir uns an Fast Fashion gewöhnt: daran, ständig neue Kleidung zu kaufen. Andererseits sind die Inhaltsstoffe in konventioneller Kleidung tatsächlich giftig und schädlich – nicht nur für unsere Umwelt, sondern auch für die Menschen, die sie herstellen, und für die Konsument*innen, die sie direkt auf ihrer Haut tragen. Und das alles trägt noch dazu erheblich zur Klimakrise bei: Die Modeindustrie ist heute für 10 % der menschengemachten Treibhausgas-Emissionen verantwortlich, mehr als der Flug- und Schiffsverkehr zusammen.Die Gemeinschaft zählt: We''re all connectedRebecca Burgess wollte Veränderung. Sie wollte jeden Produktionsschritt in der Textilwirtschaft neu denken, fairer und nachhaltiger gestalten – und direkt vor ihrer Haustür in Nordkalifornien damit anfangen. Und genau aus diesem Grund baute sie das Projekt "Fibershed" auf, das Bäuer*innen, Färber*innen, Designer*innen und Hersteller*innen vernetzt. In einem "Fibershed", also Fasereinzugsgebiet, wird regional, nachhaltig und umweltschonend Kleidung produziert, die wieder vollständig in den biologischen Kreislauf rückgeführt werden kann. Und mittlerweile gibt es schon über 45 Fibersheds weltweit.Der rote Faden: Gemeinsam gegen den KlimawandelIn diesem Buch gibt uns Rebecca Burgess einen Einblick in die Textilwirtschaft: Sie zeigt, wie Kleidung und Stoffe produziert werden, wie problematisch viele der Vorgänge dabei sind – aber vor allem: welche Alternativen es gibt. Alternativen, die die Textilwirtschaft von Grund auf ändern: Rohstoffe und Faserpflanzen für Textilien werden in regenerativer Landwirtschaft, also ohne Einsatz von Pestiziden und Kunstdüngern, angebaut. Und die Tiere, von denen die Wolle stammt, leben in artgerechter Haltung. So kann sich der Boden regenerieren, die Biodiversität wird gesteigert und der Wasserkreislauf belebt. Verarbeitet werden die Rohstoffe möglichst regional unter fairen Arbeitsbedingungen. Und am Ende des Kreislaufs steht nicht etwa ein Kleidungsstück, das im Müll landet – nein, diese Stoffe können sogar kompostiert werden und finden so ihren Weg irgendwann wieder zurück in den Boden. Eben: soil-to-soil, cradle-to-cradle, nachhaltig und umweltschonend.• Beyond Fair Fashion: Slow Fashion! Die Non-Profit-Organisation "Fibershed" revolutioniert den gesamten Textilkreislauf – und zwar von der Wurzel weg: mit flauschiger Wolle, Stoff aus Pflanzenfasern und natürlichen Farbstoffen von ökologisch angebauten Färberpflanzen. Für gesunde Böden, robuste Pflanzen, artgerecht gehaltene Tiere sowie faire und sichere Arbeitsbedingungen. Für alle!• Vernetzung ist angesagt: Fibersheds sind lebendige Systeme: Bäuer*innen, Färber*innen, Hersteller*innen, Modeaktivist*innen und Konsument*innen tun sich zusammen, um einen nachhaltigen Textilkreislauf zu schaffen.• Deine zweite Haut – aber wie gut kennst du sie eigentlich? Finde heraus, was in der Modeindustrie heute so (schief) läuft, welche Inhaltsstoffe sich in deiner Kleidung verstecken und welche Möglichkeiten es gibt, schon