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Inside Out and Back Again

Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai For Ha, the staggering loss of leaving her home and her father, the indignity of life on a refugee ship, the struggle to find her place in a new land are a … Continue reading

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The Crossover

The Crossover by Kwame Alexander I can’t help feeling that if more books were like The Crossover more kids would become and stay readers. This book is easy to read. I don’t mean that in the sense of it being a … Continue reading

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Brown Girl Dreaming

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson There is no way I could possibly do this book justice, so I’ll just say that it is amazing and often beautiful. Through incredibly evocative poems, Woodson manages to capture the mood of her … Continue reading

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May B.

May B. by Caroline Starr Rose Mavis Elizabeth Betterly must leave her family, her schooling and her home to live as a hired girl in another family’s soddy (think Laura Ingalls grass sod home in On the Banks of Plum … Continue reading

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Hurricane Dancers

Hurricane Dancers by Margarita Engle This is not a glorified account of pirate life.  It is not full of pirate lingo and cliche.  Rather it’s based on a real story of an early shipwreck, woven together with a legend of … Continue reading

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