Readers Advisory: Historical Fiction

Guy. I'm not even going to lie to you. I'm probably the worst reader of Historical Fiction that I know. I have then mentality that I don't like historical fiction, but then I like just about every historical fiction book that I read. I don't know what my problem is. I will say that I do struggle to read historical fiction with black characters because... well... odds are it wont end well for many...

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Review: So Done by Paula Chase

When best friends Tai and Mila are reunited after a summer apart, their friendship threatens to combust from the pressure of secrets, middle school, and the looming dance auditions for a new talented-and-gifted program.Fans of Renée Watson’s Piecing Me Together will love this memorable story about a complex friendship between two very different African American girls—and the importance...

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Readers Advisory: Contemporary

Here we are again folk. I'm just kind of having fun putting these together. I mean, eventually I'm probably going to start repeating genres but this has been a fun exercise. So this week we're just going to do all encompassing contemporary novels. I get asked for a lot of "normal every day " books by kids. Sometimes they don't know if they want mysteries, romance, coming of age, then only know they...

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Review: Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany Jackson

Monday Charles is missing, and only Claudia seems to notice. Claudia and Monday have always been inseparable—more sisters than friends. So when Monday doesn’t turn up for the first day of school, Claudia’s worried. When she doesn’t show for the second day, or second week, Claudia knows that something is wrong. Monday wouldn’t just leave her to endure tests and bullies alone. Not after last year’s...

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Readers Advisory: Fantasy

As much as I LOVE Dystopia, I also love Fantasy!! Shout out to my friend Jenn who started that craze. I tend to gravitate toward urban fantasy, and adult urban fantasy at that, but here I present to you, my list of diverse, not diverse, own voices, and not own voices Fantasy novels to help out our librarians, or readers looking to expand their horizons. (For those middle grade readers and lovers!!) It's...

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Review: Saints and Misfits by S.K. Ali

There are three kinds of people in my world:1. Saints, those special people moving the world forward. Sometimes you glaze over them. Or, at least, I do. They’re in your face so much, you can’t see them, like how you can’t see your nose.2. Misfits, people who don’t belong. Like me—the way I don’t fit into Dad’s brand-new family or in the leftover one composed of Mom and my older brother, Mama’s-Boy-Muhammad.Also,...

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