The Blue Notebook, James A. Levine ’s debut novel, is about child prostitution in India. It’s a book that I knew going into would be an emotionally hard and difficult read and I wasn’t wrong. It’s haunting. It’s the type of book that elicits a physical reaction from the reader and I found myself [...]
Suzanne Kamata, the author of Losing Kei has written a book that I kept forgetting was fiction while I was reading it. A couple of times I had to stop myself and remind myself that I was not reading a memoir. I can’t remember this happening to me before which bodes well with the book [...]
Chiggers by Hope Larson is a graphic novel geared for the young adult crowd and in all actuality, I don’t have much to say about it, so this will be a pretty short review.
Chiggers is about a group of girls who go to summer camp. It’s the same camp that Abby goes to every summer [...]
Finally! I was so disheartened when I was number 250 something on hold at the library for The Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw by Jeff Kinney. At that rate it would be months before my turn. That goes to show you how popular The Diary of a Wimpy Kid series is. It [...]
Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad by Ellen Levine and illustrations by Kadir Nelson is the last book that I’ll be spotlighting for Black History Month. First, just take a look at that cover! Oh my. What a beautiful book, what beautiful illustrations. It’s the type of book that you know [...]
