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YA Reading Post #3 Chmakova, Svetlana. 2017. brave. New York:Yen Press. ISBN 978-0-316-36317-4 Jensen Graham wants to save the world. He has dreams of becoming a astronaut and saving the world as well as his friends. But the reality is that Jensen is having a difficult time finding and keeping friends. He just can't seem to fit with anyone at his school. He gets bullied and taken advantage of even when he gets included into social clubs at school.  For example, the newspaper club crew Jenny and Alikah want to include Jensen in their social-experiment on the topic of bullying. This situation doesn't make Jensen feel any better. He hears about the Art Club but as much as he wants to attend the meeting, he is forced to attend Math tutorial if not he is going to fail the class. Then you have the two bullies at school, who just can't seem to leave Jensen alone.  He just doesn't have the courage to stand up to the bullies and therefore they continue to bully hi...