Teachers Pet Chapter 1: The Beginning of an Affair: (one teacher's sexual odyssey)

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Yet a tinge of sadness washed over me when her eyes shifted downwards, telling me that she still wasn't completely comfortable with herself. With what exactly? I wasn't sure, but I didn't want to try and question anything right now. Pet is a book that diverged greatly from my original expectations. The storyline cleverly weaved an important message using methods I’ve never seen before.

This is the story of Jam, her mother, Bitter who paints like someone possessed, her dad, Aloe, who's just chill pill and her best friend, Redemption; Hibiscus, Redemption's uncle and Moss, Redemption's younger brother. MAKE ME A WORLD is an imprint dedicated to exploring the vast possibilities of contemporary childhood. We strive to imagine a universe in which no young person is invisible, in which no kid's story is erased, in which no glass ceiling presses down on the dreams of a child. Then, we publish books for that world, where kids ask hard questions, and we struggle with them together, where dreams stretch from eons ago into the future, and we do our best to provide road maps to where these young folks want to be. We make books where the children of today can see themselves and each other. Each G7 authority will present a specific technology or innovation issue of importance to the growing global economy where closer cooperation is needed. Content with my work, I returned to the front of her. Only then realizing that her silence was because she was waiting for me to say something.I knew that she was probably just looking herself over, finding something that she was insecure about and second-guessing her dress choice because of it. PETs are technologies that can help organisations share and use people’s data responsibly, lawfully, and securely, including by minimising the amount of data used and by encrypting or anonymising personal information. They are already used by financial organisations when investigating money laundering, for example, and by the healthcare sector to provide better health outcomes and services to the public. Shahnawaz M, Sangale MK, Ade AB (2019) Plastic waste disposal and reuse of plastic waste. Bioremediation technology for plastic waste. Springer, pp 21–30

You may be asked to drink some contrast material that will localize in the intestines and help the radiologist interpreting the exam. Also it’s in the category of LGBTQ+ books and since the author goes by they/them pronouns I’m hoping for a non-binary or gender fluid rep?! *fingers crossed*Jam lives with her parents, Bitter and Aloe. They are so loving and supportive of Jam. She is content. Leave metal objects including jewelry, eyeglasses, dentures and hairpins at home as they may affect the CT images. You may need to remove hearing aids and removable dental work.

That is until one night, alone in her Mom's art studio, Jam accidentally cuts her hand and drips blood on one of Bitter's paintings. Jam has grown up learning that her town was filled with monsters. They’re all gone now, or so she thought, before one emerged from her mother’s painting. Pet is a creature of feathers and claws and horns, and tells Jam it is here to hunt a monster. One that lives in her best friend Redemption’s house. Jam has a hard time believing people can be monsters, much less that someone in Redemption’s family (who she practically considers her own) can be one. If you are breastfeeding at the time of the exam, ask your radiologist or doctor how to proceed. It may help to pump breast milk ahead of time and keep it on hand for use until the PET radiotracer and CT contrast material are no longer in your body. Emezi’s use of language is what really allows this tale to flourish. The imagery is vivid without being excessively flowery, and Jam’s thought process is introspective without feeling self-indulgent. All the characters’ voices come across distinctly, from Pet’s tendency to use circular, repetitive language, to the dialects of Jam’s parents, to Redemption’s use of AAVE, to the distinctions Jam makes on when to sign her thoughts and when to voice them. That final element, Jam’s frequent use of sign language, brought an especially interesting element to the narrative, as she decided when and what was significant enough to necessitate the use of her voice aloud. Sometimes, things got confusing—Emezi did not have a good way to indicate the difference between Jam signing things and thinking them in her direct telepathic link to Pet—so the use of italics made it a little vague as far as who was speaking. That said, without using an outright different font to indicate thought-communication, I don’t know that they could have handled it any differently.Pet also focuses a lot on family dynamics, both in Jam’s own family – Jam’s relationships with her parents, Bitter and Aloe, is really developed, which is also uncommon in YA – and in her friend Redemption’s, in which Jam has been told “hides a monster”. I loved the portrayal of Redemption’s family, it’s so uncommon to see extended families and polyamory representation (Redemption’s parents are a woman, a non-binary person, and a man, but aunts and uncles are almost like parents to him too) in books, but even families that look perfect can have their ugly sides. And this is still a story with a happy ending, the best possible ending given the circumstances. Just because it has an important message, it doesn’t mean it has to be constantly painful.

Crippa M, Morico B (2020) PET depolymerization: a novel process for plastic waste chemical recycling. Catal, Green Chem Sustain Energy 179:215–219I think it’s really interesting how, in an age range that is supposedly geared towards teenagers (so, from 13 to 19, and even then, people will tell you that it’s technically meant to be 14-17), characters that are younger than 16 are so uncommon in YA. I think this is one of the reasons this book felt so unlike every YA novel I had ever read before – Jam is a 15-year-old girl who actually feels like one, and Pet talks about the typical difficulties of being a young teen in the world: Jam doesn’t know how to communicate with her parents anymore, she’s slowly realizing that the world is uglier than she has believed for all her life, and is terrified that people won’t listen to her just because of her age. I remember experiencing all of these things myself, and it’s sad that the YA age range usually avoids dealing with these topics to favor storylines that are more appealing to adults instead. Park H et al (2014) Assessment of Firefighters’ needs for personal protective equipment. Fashion and Textiles 1(1):1–13