My Name Is Why by Lemn Sissay

My Name Is Why

Lemn Sissay

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nonfiction autobiography memoir challenging emotional sad medium-paced

260 pages | first published 2019

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How does a government steal a child and then imprison him? How does it keep it a secret? This story is how.At the age of seventeen, after a childhood in a foster family followed by six years in care homes, Norman Greenwood was given his birth cert...
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Moods

emotional 81%
sad 79%
reflective 59%
challenging 49%
informative 40%
dark 31%
inspiring 30%
hopeful 21%
tense 5%
funny 1%

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fast 29%
slow 11%

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