![Reacting to Convenience Store Woman [Review]](https://i0.wp.com/fallingletters.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/convenience-store-woman.jpg?resize=245%2C150&ssl=1)
Format/source: Hardcover/LibraryPublished: June 2018Publisher: Grove PressLength: 163 pages Genre: Literary fictionTranslator: Ginny Tapley Takemori★★★★ I’m going to try something new in this post. As I was typing up my notes on this book, I realized that there were so many specific bits of the novel that […]
![Spooky Sequels: The Island of Monsters + A Festival Of Ghosts [Review]](https://i0.wp.com/fallingletters.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/island-of-monsters.jpg?resize=245%2C150&ssl=1)
The Island of Monsters by Ellen Oh The follow up to 2017’s Spirit Hunters, The Island of Monsters takes Harper and her multiracial family on a Halloween vacation to a tropical island with a gruesome past. Harper must use her […]
![Bringing an Inkblot to Life: Inkling by Kenneth Oppel [Review]](https://i0.wp.com/fallingletters.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/inkling.jpg?resize=245%2C150&ssl=1)
Format/source: ebook/EdelweissPublished: 6 November 2018 (US; out now in Canada)Publisher: KnopfLength: 272 pages Genre: Middle grade speculative fictionI received a copy from the publisher via Edelweiss in exchange for my honest opinion.★★★★ Ethan’s dad is a comic artist whose greatest creation, the mutant superhero Kren, […]
Earlier this month in my children’s literature course, I was part of a group that presented on Erin Entrada Kelly’s novels. I spoke about the theme of building friendships in the face of adversity in her first two novels, Blackbird […]
![The Best of Middle Grade Fiction: Front Desk by Kelly Yang [Review]](https://i0.wp.com/fallingletters.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/front-desk.jpg?resize=245%2C150&ssl=1)
Format/source: Hardcover/library Published: May 2018 Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Length: 286 pages Genre: Middle grade fiction ★★★★ Based on the author’s experiences growing up as a Chinese immigrant in the 1990’s, Kelly Yang’s debut novel explores the stark trials 10 year old Mia Tang and […]