The Morris Finalist Blog Tour: An Interview with Isabel Quintero
Welcome to the Morris Finalist Blog Tour, featuring the outstanding 2015 debut authors and their books! In December, YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association, of the American Library...
View ArticleReview: Written in the Stars by Aisha Saeed
High school senior Naila’s conservative immigrant parents believe that they offer her ample freedom. She may choose how she wears her hair, she has a non-Pakistani best friend, and they are even...
View ArticleThe Story of a Survivor: Breath to Breath
My reviews this month focus on small presses and their unique contributions to the publishing ecosystem. These contributions may be in the form of subject matter, point of view, language, or style. As...
View ArticleReview: Salt To The Sea by Ruta Sepetys
Last month I reviewed the middle grade novel Pax by Sara Pennypacker. This month I am reviewing a young adult novel that also explores the effects of war on our world. While Pax explores these effects...
View ArticleAn Immigrant’s Dilemma in American Street
In Ibi Zoboi’s debut novel, American Street, 16-year-old Fabiola Toussaint has just arrived from Haiti to the United States with her mother, but things have gone terribly wrong. While Customs &...
View ArticleFacing a Hard Past Together: A Review of The Stars at Oktober Bend
Alice is fifteen years old, but she believes she will always remain twelve. That was the year two young men from her town in Australia raped and beat her, leaving her in a coma for weeks and with...
View ArticleBLOOD WATER PAINT
“She has to ask herself—and women have asked themselves this question for centuries—would she rather be suffocated slowly for the rest of her life, or die quickly trying to accomplish something?”...
View ArticleLife Under Totalitarianism: A Review of The House of One Thousand Eyes
Set in East Germany in 1983, Michelle Barker’s latest novel narrates in third person the story of Lena Altmann, a 17-year-old girl recently released from a mental hospital, confined there because of a...
View ArticleHealing From Abuse Through Poetry: A Review of What Girls Know
After debuting in 2009 with her award-winning YA novel Shine Coconut Moon, Neesha Meminger has continued to create powerful and varied books for teens that she has published independently. She began...
View ArticleDreams Against the Odds: A Review of Furia
Growing up in present-day Rosario, Argentina, 17-year-old Camila Hassan lives in the shadow of her older brother’s dreams of fútbol (soccer) greatness while hiding her own from the family. Her...
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