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review: Kid X
Coal reaffirms the everyday as well as the extraordinary specialness in Black boys. He struggles, he’s not perfect, but he’s such a good guy!
review: Onward: 16 Climate Fiction Short Stories to Inspire Hope
This is an important collection to have in school and public libraries to examine craft, the realities of our climate and what might be next for all of us.
review: One Word, Six Letters
Khorram is talking directly to each one of us through his characters. He’s gentle with his characters, he cares about these young people. We can take it.
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review: Hattie Mae Begins Again
Hattie May had learned her place in the US quite well, but now that she was in a much larger, more established Black community, she has a lot to learn about her identity among her own people.
review: Balancing Act
Lives are validated not through what reviewers often see as ‘gritty’ but a very nuanced layering of Black classicism. Even though she provides a fictitious urban setting, these teen’s reality isn’t directly about racism, income, or gender. It’s about the balancing act they do to survive every day.
review: The Story of My Anger
Mendez structures The Story of My Anger so that it demonstrates ways to express anger, the danger of holding it all in, and the need for community.
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review: Truth Is: A Novel in Verse
Hannah Sawyerr's second novel, Truth Is, is a pro choice novel where Truth finds her voice and learns how to step up, speak out, and make positive choices for herself.
review: The Leaving Room
In typical McBride fashion, the lines and verses evoke a story that is more shadow play than structure.
review: The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War Two Story
Nayeri is good at engaging setting, and these devices works especially well in a story about land.
NBA Season: Books, not Basketball
Zoboi, like Lukoff, pulls from personal reality to shape a world that exists in the margins that are formed to reduce outcomes. To define good and bad.
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