title: Percy Lavon Julian: Pioneering Chemist Signature Lives Series author: Darlene R. Stille date: Compass Point Books; 2009 non-fiction reading level: 7.0 preview the book There is a very limited range of biographies of people of color that are available for middle and high school readers, so I was glad to find Percy Lavon: Pioneering… Read More review: Percy Lavon Julian Pioneering Chemist
title: BorderTown: Quince Clash author: Malin Alegria date: Scholastic, July, 2012 main character: Fabiana (Fabi) Garza reading level: 5.0 That Santiago! We left him in Crossing the line standing before a judge facing several counts and now we find him in the second book hiding in his girl’s closet at 2:00am from her mafioso father! He’s Fabi’s… Read More Review and a contest!
title: Border Town: Crossing the Line author: Malin Alegria date: Scholastic; May 2012 main character: Fabiola (Fabi) Garza Crossing the Line had a somewhat slow start but, that’s OK because we’re being introduced to a cast of characters who are meant to sustain this new Latina series. Fabi’s family runs a restaurant in a small… Read More A Review and a Chance to Win!
title: Darkroom: a memoir in black and white author: Lila Quintero Weaver date: University of Alabama Press; 2012 non-fiction Darkroom is a graphic memoir of Weaver’s childhood in Alabama. It’s an unexpected story of an Argentinean family living in Alabama in the 1960s. Through Weaver’s eyes, we see how she and her family try to… Read More book review: Darkroom: a memoir in black and white
title: Pitch Black: Don’t Be Skerd author: Youme Landowne and Anthony Horton date: Cinco Puntos Press, 2008 non-fiction YALSA Top Ten Great Graphic Novels in 2009 reading level: 3.1 They meet on a subway in New York City and although they have little else in common, Youme and Anthony discover they are both artists. Anthony shares the story of… Read More book review: Pitch Black: don’t be skerd
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