title: They Call Me Güero : A Border Kid’s Poems author: David Bowles date: Cinco Puntos; 2018 main character: Güero poetry; middle grades Review base on an advanced reader’s copy It’s the perfect time for us, for diverse nerds and geeks, for all woke readers– heroes whose power is traveling through these pages to… Read More book review: They Call Me Güero
A few weeks ago, this tweet appeared in my Twitter feed. This lineup for the Massachusetts Reading Association 50th Annual Conference… 🤔 🤔🤔🤔🤔 cc. @booktoss @lizpslibrarian @TchKimPossible https://t.co/rCeviHIxex — Sujei =) (@sujeilugo) September 19, 2018 Educators and librarians, particularly those residing in Massachusetts were dismayed by the lack of diverse representation of the those… Read More SundayMorningReads
title: Apple in the Middle author: Dawn Quigley date: North Dakota Press; 2018 main character: Apple Starkington YA realistic fiction Review is based on an advanced copy Apple Starkington is a high school student in Minnesota. Apple’s father is European American and her mother was Turtle Mountain Chippewa. Her family is upper middle class.… Read More review: Apple in the Middle
All the Stars Denied by Guadalupe Garcia McCall (Tu Books) When resentment surges during the Great Depression in a Texas border town, Estrella, fifteen, organizes a protest against the treatment of tejanos and soon finds herself witih her mother and baby brother in Mexico. Beneath the Citadel by Destiny Soria In a city ruled by ancient… Read More October MG & YA Releases
This is post is edited to contain information that was supplied by a representative from Scholastic to correct information in this review. The additional information appears in blue while the original informations remains. title: Baby Monkey, Private Eye authors: Brian Selznick and David Serlin date: Scholastic, 2018 main character: Baby Monkey ALSC Institute provided me… Read More review: Baby Monkey, Private Eye
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