Among the crises the narrator is dealing with is her father’s aphasia—words lost to his stroke—and the jumble of words that compose each poem resembles her father’s struggle with language.
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There are so many things books can do that are amazing. Books will always be my safe place no matter how long I go without reading, and for many others as well I hope one day that books can wiggle themselves into everyone’s life and brighten their day when it’s needed.
In the words of the gypsy fortune teller and Esma, “This boy, Teo, and I, Esma, Queen of Lightning, are on the path to being loyal friends for our long lives. . . . if our friendship lasts, we will save each other when no one else can. This is our destiny!”
Candice Iloh’s novel in verse, Every Body Looking, is a coming-of-age story that explores themes of identity, belonging, and self-discovery.
In We Should Hang Out Sometime, Josh Sundquist tells a variety of stories about his crushes, dates, and multiple attempts in finding a significant other, all ranging from humorous to heartbreaking.
When I Was Puerto Rican is an autobiography about the author, Esmeralda Santiago, and her experience growing up in Puerto Rico and the cultural, emotional, and environmental changes she went through moving to New York.
“The smallest person on the totem pole was supposed to be a worker and the one on the top was the one with the brains,” says Ashanti Alston in Black Anarchism
With novels it is a different experience than comics and movies, we are able to use our imagination.
This book gave a better understanding of the difficulties of loss, how mental illness impacts people, as well as the understanding and support of those who are affected by these events.
This book reveals how truly precious life is and how every moment of it is special.
Everything about this story is charming and the drawings used as examples of the artist’s work are a joy to look at.
When it gets rainy and cloudy outside so chilly it seeps into my bones, there is nothing I want to do more than get a book off my shelf and get lost in the words of each page, seeking a new adventure every time the weather is as gloomy as it can get.
