Grief is the Thing with Feathers – Max Porter
Paperback, 128 pages Published June 7th 2016 by Graywolf Press Source: Publisher Grief makes you senseless and irrational. It does not make you empty, at least not in my experience, […]
Category Archives: Realistic Fiction
Graffiti Moon by Cath Crowley: A FanGirl Discussion
Hardcover, 260 pages Published February 14th 2012 by Knopf Books for Young Readers Source: Purchased In a recent Cover Wars post, we warred over the cover of Cath Crowley’s upcoming […]
Review: Silence is Goldfish by Annabel Pitcher
Hardcover, 352 pages Published May 17th 2016 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Source: Publisher “I tell you what, I should write my own blog for that stupid website, […]
Migritude by Shailja Patel
Paperback, 153 pages Published November 30th 2010 by Kaya Press Source: Purchased From “The Making (Migrant Song):” We overdress, we migrants. We care too much how we look to you. […]
Review: It Ain’t So Awful, Falafel by Firoozeh Dumas
If you are a child of immigrants or an immigrant yourself, chances are almost all of Zomorod’s (nee Cindy) in It Ain’t So Awful, Falafel will be familiar to you. […]
Review: All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
A bag of chips. That’s all sixteen-year-old Rashad is looking for at the corner bodega. What he finds instead is a fist-happy cop, Paul Galluzzo, who mistakes Rashad for a […]
Review: Just Like Me by Nancy J. Cavanaugh
Hardcover, 256 pages Published April 5th 2016 by Sourcebooks Jabberwocky Source: Raincoast Books There must be a handbook somewhere that states that all books with 12 year old protagonists must […]
Review: Exit, Pursued by a Bear by E. K. Johnston
“I love you,” Polly says suddenly when I’m almost to the door. “I know,” I say. Hermione Winters has been a flyer. She’s been captain of her cheerleading team. The […]
Review: Short Stories for Kids and Teens: By Contemporary Shanghai Writers by Patrick Wallace (Editor), Qiu Maoru (Translator), Wu Xiaozhen (Translator)
Paperback, 318 pages Published September 10th 2010 by Shanghai Press Source: Tuttle Books I’m going to review a selection of the stories in this collection so you can get a […]
Review: This is the Story of You – Beth Kephart
Hardcover, 264 pages Expected publication: April 12th 2016 by Chronicle Books Source: ARC from Raincoast Books Blue, for example. Like the colour the sun makes the sea. Like the beach […]
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