Welcome to Windows & Mirrors, where we feature books that provide us windows to lives outside our own and mirrors to our shared common human experiences. Today we are featuring TRAIL OF LIGHTNING by Rebecca Roanhorse. After Big Water (a climate apocalypse), Dinétah—the homeland of the Navajo (Diné)—is one of the few remaining areas where people can live. Many of the Diné have experienced an activation … Continue reading Windows & Mirrors: TRAIL OF LIGHTNING
Q: Is GRIM LOVELIES as dazzling as its cover foretells? A: A big FAT YES! Anouk is an enchanted girl who exists only because the evil witch Mada Vittora created her from an animal. Anouk, a Beastie, is forbidden to venture beyond the confines of her Parisian prison, Mada Vittora’s house, where she is destined to serve her evil mistress for her entire life. That … Continue reading GRIM LOVELIES by Megan Shepherd
If you crave terrifyingly dark teen fiction filled with danger, impossible choices, and twisty political intrigue, GIVE THE DARK MY LOVE, is your next book! Sometimes to make things better, we have to do things that seem wrong or even horrible to others. Does that make us monsters? Or saviors? Seventeen-year-old Nedra Brysstain leaves her rural island home to attend the prestigious Yūgen Academy as … Continue reading Interview with NY Times Bestselling Author Beth Revis: GIVE THE DARK MY LOVE
Welcome to Windows & Mirrors, where we feature books that provide us windows to lives outside our own and mirrors to our shared common human experiences. Today we are featuring PRIDE by IBI ZOBOI. Zuri is the second oldest of five sisters in their family living in The Bushwick region of Brooklyn. Her older sister is coming home from college for the summer after her freshman … Continue reading Windows & Mirrors: PRIDE by Ibi Zoboi
Welcome to Windows & Mirrors, where we feature books that provide us windows to lives outside our own and mirrors to our shared common human experiences. This week we are featuring Dream Country by Shannon Gibney. DREAM COUNTRY begins with the incredible and gut-wrenching story of a seventeen-year-old Liberian refugee. Kollie, who is both too black and not black enough for his African-American peers, is … Continue reading Windows & Mirrors: DREAM COUNTRY by Shannon Gibney
If you read my posts regularly, you know I devour and love many books. To call me a Kate DiCamillo super-fan may be an underestimation. I was THRILLED to receive an ARC for LOUISIANA’S WAY HOME by Kate DiCamillo. Yes, I screamed. Ask my family. Kate DiCamillo launches us back into the world of Raymie Nightingale in LOUISIANA’S WAY HOME. This time, Louisiana Elefante is … Continue reading LOUISIANA’S WAY HOME by Kate DiCamillo
Welcome to Windows & Mirrors, where we feature books that provide us windows to lives outside our own and mirrors to our shared common human experiences. Today we are featuring Merci Suárez Changes Gears by Meg Medina. Because they are scholarship students, Merci and her older brother, Roli, are “different” from the other kids at their private school. Since they don’t have fancy cars or … Continue reading Windows & Mirrors: MERCI SUÁREZ CHANGES GEARS by Meg Medina
Anyone who knows me will tell you that The Fourteenth Goldfish is one of my favorite books. EVER. I actually screamed when I heard that the sequel, THE THIRD MUSHROOM , was releasing this summer. The second the arc became available, I started reading. Ellie, my favorite middle school scientist, is back. Why do I like Ellie so much? She funny, down-to-earth, open-minded, curious, and not a … Continue reading Recommended: THE THIRD MUSHROOM by Jennifer Holm
Welcome to Windows & Mirrors, where we feature books that provide us windows to lives outside our own and mirrors to our shared common human experiences. Today we are featuring Zora and Me: The Cursed Ground by T.R. Simon. The Curse Ground is the second novel in the Zora and Me series. The first book, Zora and Me written by Victoria Bond and T.R. Simon, … Continue reading Windows & Mirrors: Zora & Me-THE CURSED GROUND by T.R. Simon
Many seventh graders spend their days worrying about friendship drama, their appearance, or their killer homework. But there are millions of kids in our country whose worries are related to their safety or who are living in serious poverty. We don’t see those kids in books often enough, which is why I was eager to read THE BENEFITS OF BEING AN OCTOPUS. Zoey has her … Continue reading THE BENEFITS OF BEING AN OCTOPUS by Ann Braden
Welcome to Windows & Mirrors, where we feature books that provide us windows to lives outside our own and mirrors to our shared common human experiences. Today we are featuring Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson. When six “special” kids are sent by their teacher to a quiet art room and told they can just hang out and talk for an hour every Friday afternoon, at … Continue reading Windows & Mirrors: HARBOR ME by Jacqueline Woodson
Patience and Fortitude, the noble lions who guard the New York Public Library, are the stars of a new picture book, LOST IN THE LIBRARY, by the amazing Josh Funk! When Fortitude awakens one morning, he discovers that his pal Patience is missing. He ventures inside the library looking for his story-loving friend. We get to see the noted regions of the library through … Continue reading Josh Funk Interview: LOST IN THE LIBRARY
