Devil and the Bluebird by Jennifer Mason-Black
Hardcover, 336 pages Published May 17th 2016 by Amulet Books Source: Library I didn’t specifically plan to read Devil and the Bluebird specifically for performing arts month. That was just […]
Category Archives: Magical Realism
Nafiza Recommends: The Ghosts of Ashbury High by Jaclyn Moriarty
Amelia and Riley have transferred to Ashbury for their final year of school, and everyone is completely obsessed with them. Glamorous, talented and totally devoted to one another, the two […]
Review: Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking, she believes, for beauty—the opposite of the life she’s left behind in New […]
Review: The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma
[Note: I received my copy of the book from Thomas Allen & Son in exchange for a review.] The Walls Around Us is a ghostly story of suspense told in two […]
Greenglass House by Kate Milford: A Review
Hardcover, 384 pages Published August 26th 2014 by Clarion Books Source: Publisher/Distributor Greenglass House by Kate Milford was nominated for a national book award and prior to reading it, I had […]
The Witch’s Boy by Kelly Barnhill: A Review
Hardcover, 384 pages Published September 16th 2014 by Algonquin Young Readers Source: Publisher Someone ought to have warned me that writing reviews while suffering from a debilitating cold is […]
I’ll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson: A Review
Jude and her twin brother, Noah, are incredibly close. At thirteen, isolated Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude […]
The Kappa Child
In a family not at all reminiscent of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie, four Japanese-Canadian sisters struggle to escape the bonds of a family and landscape as […]
The Fox’s Window and Other Stories – Naoko Awa (author), Toshiya Kamei (Translator): A Review
Paperback, 227 pages Published June 16th 2010 by Uno Press Source: Personal Copy Naoko Awa’s collection of stories, translated by Toshiya Kamei, gives a glimpse of the tales Japanese children […]
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