I was encouraged by a fellow Pagebounder (boundling?) to seek the help of you all in my search for two books that I cannot find the titles for. I read them YEARS ago and only remember some details, but maybe there's a super sleuth amongst you 😂 Not getting my hopes up though because I've done Internet deep dives with no success. So I'll just list the details I do remember for each book (which are completely unrelated books)

Book 1: -Middle-grade, YA novel -Cover was a chartreuse/greenish-yellow color with some painted picture of 2 people on a wooden boat on a river -Title contained maybe one or more of the words "rain," "forest," "river," "dream," or "jungle" -The FMC was a Native girl with deformed feet, specifically webbing between her toes, I think she was [nick]named Duck -The MMC was a white boy (American or British possibly) who went into the jungle/rainforest as part of a military(?) mission, met "Duck," and then set out to find her a doctor to fix her feet because it made it hard for her to walk

Book 2: -Also a middle-grade, YA novel -The MMC and FMC are a young brother and sister, the sister slightly older -The little brother had this inability to identify faces, including his sister's, unless there was a very identifiable characteristic to tell a person apart (I think the sister dyed one strand of hair different color so she would stand out to her brother) -Took place in some kind of coastal community -Book cover was blue and potentially had some oceanic imagery/illustrations on it -Amelia Earhart was a character that was mysteriously introduced later and her plane, Canary, was referenced I think

Some of this may be inaccurate considering I'm pulling these recollections from the depths of my mind lol. Any help or resources is/are appreciated. I would love to be able to find these books again 🥹

Book so good had to make a playlist 😔

The name you bestow upon it will echo throughout history!

Current name count: 46 59% Neutral, 24% Masculine, 17% Feminine

"[...] I always assumed the trees knew everything, but af Klint knew they are of knowledge.

To be of something means to write oneself out of the frame. All this time, I thought we were the

object and the source. But we are neither, just of life. [...]"

Chang's description in this poem of the painting becoming a tunnel is exactly how I feel about these poems she has written. This excerpt, especially, stood out to me. The difference in being something and being of something...living and being of life. Knowing and being of knowledge. Chang always has me scratching my head in the best way. What did you think of this poem?

Hey all...

Wondering if any of you know of good, reputable books on PCOS that include dietary and other lifestyle recommendations. My daughter has PCOS, and while it screws with her hormones as you might expect, and while she has some insulin resistance, her doctors don't want to medicate her for that. She's not a very big person and they told her at her current BMI she was better off using diet and lifestyle to address it.

I could benefit from some of the same lifestyle changes, so she and I are going to work on a plan together and then both implement it and check in now and again. However, there is a lot of information online and in books, some of which looks about as reputable as snake oil, and some of which I'm not sure about. I know we have a community of people here who are educated on all kinds of different topics, so I thought I'd throw it out there. I want to make sure whatever sources I use are backed up science.

Thanks!