Tag Archives: realistic fiction

2019 Newberys: Merci Suárez Changes Gears and The Night Diary

Posted on July 15, 2019 by

Here are reviews of this year’s Newbery and Newbery honor books.  I had read just one of these when it first came out, The Book of Boy by Catherine Gilbert Murdock.  And shout-out to my blogging friend Sondy at Sonderbooks, … Continue reading →

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Queer as a Five Dollar Bill

Posted on April 22, 2019 by

I’d heard of Lee Wind’s blog, I’m Here, I’m Queer, What the Hell Do I Read before, but it took me a little bit to put this together with the nice guy I was chatting with at KidLitCon.  He told … Continue reading →

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The Hate U Give

Posted on August 17, 2017 by

This is the first book to be published directly because of the #WeNeedDiverseBooks movement, so of course I had to read it.  My only advice would be to please, don’t do as I do, and listen to this audiobook at … Continue reading →

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Always and Forever, Lara Jean

Posted on August 15, 2017 by

It’s always disorienting coming back to blogging from vacation, but here I am, with another simultaneously light and weighty book by Jenny Han, the closing book in the series that started with To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before. Always and … Continue reading →

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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Posted on March 25, 2017 by

I’m continuing Latin@ week at alibrarymama with a book that’s become a classic just in the five years since it came out. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz. Read by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Simon … Continue reading →

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Stef Soto, Taco Queen

Posted on March 20, 2017 by

A rare upbeat but realistic view of middle great in Stef Soto, Taco Queen by Jennifer Torres. Continue reading →

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Towers Falling

Posted on February 23, 2017 by

I was interested to see what the author of Cybils finalist Bayou Magic would do with the topic of September 11, just recently far enough in the past for students to need to learn about it in school. Towers Falling … Continue reading →

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TTT: Top Ten New-To-Me Authors I Read For the First Time In 2016

Posted on December 14, 2016 by

Here are ten of my favorite new authors for 2016, with great stories for middle grade, teen and adult readers. Continue reading →

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Kindred Spirits by Rainbow Rowell

Posted on June 18, 2016 by

Do you love Rainbow Rowell as much as I do?  I thought I’d read everything she’d written – until Kate at Mom’s Radius posted about this one, a novella written especially for World Book Day in the UK.  Happily, she’d … Continue reading →

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Fish in a Tree

Posted on March 21, 2016 by

This book came recommended to me by my good friend and colleague Mrs. M., who told me that it would make me cry, but that it would be worth it.  I have lots of thoughts about it! Fish in a … Continue reading →

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