Tag: middle grade

Charis Cotter’s The Painting Explores Mother-Daughter Relationships via Time Slip

17 September 2017 / review / 0 Comments
Charis Cotter’s The Painting Explores Mother-Daughter Relationships via Time Slip

The Painting by Charis Cotter Format/Source: eBook/Netgalley Published: 19 September 2017 Publisher: Tundra Books Length: 288 pages Genre: Middle grade time slip Rating: ★★★½ GoodReads | Indigo | IndieBound I received a copy from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for my honest review. Annie and her mother don’t see eye to eye. When Annie finds a painting of a lonely lighthouse in their home, she is immediately drawn to it–and her mother […]

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Review of Patina by Jason Reynolds

29 August 2017 / review / 0 Comments
Review of Patina by Jason Reynolds

Patina by Jason Reynolds Series: Track #2 Format/Source: ARC/Publisher Published: 29 August 2017 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Canada Length: 240 pages Genre: Middle grade contemporary Rating: ★★★★ GoodReads | Indigo | IndieBound | Wordery I received a copy from the publisher in exchange for my honest review. Patina, or Patty, runs like a flash. She runs for many reasons—to escape the taunts from the kids at the fancy-schmancy new school she’s been sent to […]

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Exploring Biracial Identity in The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond

3 July 2017 / review / 0 Comments
Exploring Biracial Identity in The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond

The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond by Brenda Woods Format/Source: Hardcover/Library Published: January 2014 Publisher: Nancy Paulsen Books Length: 240 pages Genre: Contemporary middle grade Rating: ★★★★ GoodReads | Indigo | IndieBound | Wordery Violet is a smart, funny, brown-eyed, brown-haired girl in a family of blonds. Her mom is white, and her dad, who died before she was born, was black. She attends a mostly white school where she sometimes feels like a […]

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Diversity Spotlight Thursday #2

29 June 2017 / brief reviews, meme / 2 Comments
Diversity Spotlight Thursday #2

Read and Enjoyed: Star-Crossed by Barbara Dee Mattie, a star student and passionate reader, is delighted when her English teacher announces the eighth grade will be staging Romeo and Juliet. And she is even more excited when, after a series of events, she finds herself playing Romeo, opposite Gemma Braithwaite’s Juliet. Gemma, the new girl at school, is brilliant, pretty, outgoing—and, if all that wasn’t enough: British. As the cast prepares […]

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Spring 2017 Diverse Reads

26 June 2017 / brief reviews / 0 Comments
Spring 2017 Diverse Reads

March (disability – club foot) – Handbook for Dragon Slayers by Merrie Haskell April (mental health – depression) – More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera June (sexuality and gender identity – transboy) When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore Handbook for Dragon Slayers by Merrie Haskell Thirteen-year-old Princess Matilda, whose lame foot brings fear of the evil eye, has never given much thought to dragons, attending instead to her endless duties and wishing herself free of […]

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