In The Way You Make Me Feel, Clara Shin lives for pranks and disruption. When she takes one joke too far, her dad sentences her to a summer working on…
Tag: diverse books
Monday Mini-Reviews: 12/18/17
"All emotions are universal. Regardless where we come from or where we are going, we live, we dream, we strive, we die." Lukas K. Law, Foreword of Where the Stars…
Character Interview:: Regan & Evelyn from Chameleon Moon
Today I'd like to introduce you to Regan and Evelyn, two of the characters from RoAnna Sylver's queer, hopeful dystopia, Chameleon Moon. I have had this book on my TBR…
Review:: Wild by Hannah Moskowitz
Zack Ramos is training for two things: being a parent to his twelve-year-old sister once his mother's early-onset Alzheimer's (the same kind he and his sister each have a 50%…
Review:: Noteworthy by Riley Redgate
It’s the start of Jordan Sun’s junior year at the Kensington-Blaine Boarding School for the Performing Arts in Noteworthy. Unfortunately, she’s an Alto 2, which—in the musical theatre world—is sort…
Review:: Gone by Min Kym
Gone is the spellbinding memoir of a violin virtuoso who loses the instrument that had defined her both on stage and off -- and who discovers, beyond the violin, the…
Review:: Shadowshaper by Daniel Jose Older
Sierra Santiago was looking forward to a fun summer of making art, hanging out with her friends, and skating around Brooklyn. But then a weird zombie guy crashes the first…
Review:: The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco
When Tea accidentally resurrects her brother from the dead, she learns she is different from the other witches in her family. Her gift for necromancy means that she’s a bone witch, a…
February Wrap Up
I had a rough start to my reading month. I just couldn't focus on anything in print until midway through the month. It was incredibly frustrating, and damaging to my review…
Review:: Everything Belongs to Us by Yoojin Grace Wuertz
In Everything Belongs to Us, two young women of vastly different means each struggle to find her own way during the darkest hours of South Korea’s “economic miracle” in a striking…
Character Interview: Hope in Nautical Dusk by Miri Castor
In Hope in Nautical Dusk, The Gift of Twilight flourishes within Opal Charm as winter descends on Dewdrop. Life was already rough before, but Opal’s got new obstacles to face…
Review:: Binti: Home by Nnedi Okorafor
In Binti: Home, it’s been a year since Binti and Okwu enrolled at Oomza University. A year since Binti was declared a hero for uniting two warring planets. A year…
Review:: The Education of Margot Sanchez by Lilliam Rivera
Pretty in Pink comes to the South Bronx in The Education of Margot Sanchez, a bold and romantic coming-of-age novel about dysfunctional families, good and bad choices, and finding the…
Review:: Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson
Piecing Me Together is a timely and powerful story about a teen girl striving for success in a world that too often seems like it's trying to break her. Jade…
Review:: Fearless by Shira Glassman
A newly out-of-the-closet band mom falls for an orchestra teacher while snowed in at All-State in Fearless. Lana Novak hasn’t played violin in over twenty years, her musical life these…