"Hughes' lively, humorous memoir is a fast, enjoyable read and indispensable for young people." - Booklist "These laugh-out-loud accounts read like warm conversations with an older cousin who provides helpful advice-sandwiched between love and laughter-on growing up." - Kirkus Reviews If funny mixed with wit and honesty is the dish, Akilah Hughes is a five-star chef." -Roy Wood Jr., Correspondent, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah "Akilah is one of the best and brightest writers of our generation. Read it and make it your friend." - New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson "Akilah Hughes is a light in the darkness. Keep going." -Jon Lovett, co-host of Pod Save America Through all these stories-some happy, some sad, some insane-there's always a message that says don't give up. "This book is like Akilah: vulnerable but tough, positive without being annoying, and so, so funny.
And her book.)" -Samantha Irby, New York Times bestselling author of We Are Never Meeting in Real Life "Oh cool, you have a hilarious new best friend now! (It's Akilah. Like Tiffany Haddish's The Last Black Unicorn or Mindy Kaling's Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? for the YA set, Akilah pens revealing and laugh-out-loud funny essays about her life, covering everything from her racist fifth grade teacher, her struggles with weight and acne, her failed attempts at joining the cheerleading team, how to literally get to New York (hint: for a girl on a budget, it may include multiple bus transfers) and exactly how to "make it" once you finally get there.
Through intimate and hilarious essays, Akilah takes readers along on her journey from the small Kentucky town where she was born-and eventually became a spelling bee champ and 15-year-old high school graduate-to New York City, where she took careful steps to fulfill her dream of becoming a writer and performer. In Akilah Hughes's world, family-and life-are often complicated, but always funny. And it has a lot of pictures."A refreshingly funny and blisteringly unsentimental coming-of-age memoir." - John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Turtles All The Way Down and The Fault in Our Stars It has the answers to a lot of questions people at church have asked me. But perhaps even more importantly, if you are reading or preaching on a passage, you can look in this study bible to get a sense of the original context of that passage: what did other ancient Near Eastern peoples think about the creation of the world? What was the city of Corinth like in the time of Paul? The best way to sum up my excitement about the Archaeology Study Bible is that it has all the information I wish were in other study bibles. The Archaeology Study Bible will help you think about Big Questions, like, “When did the Exodus happen?” or “What is the Significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls?” The articles on these topics are up–to–date and balanced. Top–notch evangelical scholars like Richard Hess and John Currid have sifted through all the data, and created an invaluable resource for understanding the biblical world. But what if you don’t have time to go get a PhD, and leaf through dusty journals to find this information? That is where the ESV Archaeology Study Bible comes in. This is one of the best things I am getting from my PhD studies of the Bible: knowing the cultural and historical background of biblical stories makes them stand out in 3D. “To understand the Bible, you need to know where it came from.
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