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Tag Archives: verse
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
Posted in Middle Grades, Primary Grades
Tagged award winner, emigration, national book award, newbery honor, poetry, refugee, southeast asian, verse, vietnam
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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
Posted in Middle Grades, Teen, Tween
Tagged Af-Am, award winner, basketball, black, coretta scott king award, newbery, verse
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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
Posted in Middle Grades, Teen, Tween
Tagged Af-Am, autobiography, black, newbury honor, verse
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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
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
