1990s

Tag: 1990s

July 26, 2021 by Amanda MacGregor

Book Review: Summer in the City of Roses by Michelle Ruiz Keil

This is a standout book about runaways finding what they need in the strangest of ways. Just lovely.

January 28, 2020 by Amanda MacGregor

Book Review: We Were Promised Spotlights by Lindsay Sproul

Hand this grim coming-of-age story to readers who don’t mind characters who can be difficult to like.

May 9, 2017 by Amanda MacGregor

Book Review: City of Angels by Kristi Belcamino

Publisher’s description Nikki Black has been self-imposed lone wolf since her mother died, fleeing suburban Chicago to escape her painful past. But when her so-called boyfriend reveals why he really lured her to Southern California, she ends up on the streets of Los Angeles with only the clothes on her back and a destitute twelve-year-old […]

#SVYALit Book Review: Rani Patel in Full Effect by Sonia Patel

October 11, 2016 by Amanda MacGregor

Publisher’s description Almost seventeen, Rani Patel appears to be a kick-ass Indian girl breaking cultural norms as a hip-hop performer in full effect. But in truth, she’s a nerdy flat-chested nobody who lives with her Gujarati immigrant parents on the remote Hawaiian island of Moloka’i, isolated from her high school peers by the unsettling norms […]