LOOKS LIKE DAYLIGHT by Deborah Ellis, Foreword by Loriene Roy Sit down. Open this book, LOOKS LIKE DAYLIGHT. You will be surprised. Deborah Ellis traveled across the North American continent – the U.S. and Canada – to interview Native…
Category: Family
“Blue Skies and Starry Nights”: A Review of Remember Dippy
Thirteen-year-old Johnny hopes to spend his summer swimming and hanging out with his friends in their Vermont town. But his mother must work in New York, and his father, who lives in Boston, has other priorities, so Johnny is sent…
DARE TO DREAM …CHANGE THE WORLD
DARE TO DREAM…CHANGE THE WORLD Edited by Jill Corcoran, illustrated by J. Beth Jepson What a beautiful collection of poems that inspires and challenge. We all have prejudices and we all have felt discrimination. Who has not been bullied, left…
Razia’s Ray of Hope: One Girl’s Dream of an Education
Razia’s Ray of Hope: One Girl’s Dream of an Education by Elizabeth Suneby is extremely informative, providing children just enough of a glimpse into the strange educational apartheid in Afghanistan. The Zabuli Education Center for Girls in Kabul is a…
IRA’s new children’s award! Social Justice Literature
IRA’s new award: The Social Justice Literature Award “This brand-new award is presented to honor books that address social responsibility towards individuals, communities, societies, and/or the environment as well as invite reflection and socially responsible action by the reader.” What…
Divided Loyalties: A Review of Brotherhood
In Richmond, Virginia in 1867, 14-year-old Shadrach Weaver is awakened early and violently one morning. Federal soldiers beat him and carry away his older brother, Jeremiah, wanted for murder. The victim, George Nelson, is an itinerant teacher, a white man…
Surviving Depression: A Review of Every Day After
The long recession and weak recovery have kindled interest in the Great Depression and the ways that families responded to sudden economic deprivation nearly a century ago. Laura Golden’s new middle grade novel Every Day After (Delacorte) mines the author’s…
IF I EVER GET OUT OF HERE
IF I EVER GET OUT OF HERE, written by Eric Gansworth, tackles tough issues with raw rugged honesty. The author, an enrolled member of the Onondaga Nation, grew up on the Tuscarora Indian Reservation in upstate New York. This…
CODA: A novel of Revolution against addiction and control
Coda (Running Press Kids) by Emma Trevayne $9.95 In her debut novel, Emma Trevayne has painted a punk and rock world in which addictive music controls a future society. The encoded music heals pain and sickness, and controls the…
Rapture Practice: An Interview with Aaron Hartzler
Aaron Hartzler’s new y.a. memoir, Rapture Practice, is the funny-sad-hopeful story of one kid’s lonely journey of self-awareness and spiritual angst while growing up in a fundamentalist Christian family. I was particularly excited to read the memoir because I made…