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Tag: 1990s
Book Review: Throwback by Maurene Goo
An entertaining and, certainly for Sam, illuminating read about life in the 1990s and what it's like to see someone through a different lens.
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.
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.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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