Tag: realistic

Look Both Ways in the Barrio Blanco

Look Both Ways in the Barrio Blanco is a good book. Jacinta and Miss learn a lot from each other in this sweet and sometimes sad foray into the life […]

The Hate U Give

The cover of The Hate U Give sits above swirling police car lights. On the cover, the main character, Starr, who is black, holds a sign, much as one would hold a protest sign, but her sign gives the name of the book.

Like all my favorite stories, Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give introduced me to a whole new world. Except, however foreign it feels to me, Starr’s world exists. It’s in […]

Story of a Girl

This is a story about Deanna, a small town girl whose dad caught her in the back seat of an older boy’s car three years prior to the story’s start. […]