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Tag: Magical Realism
Using Magical Realism to Tackle Tough Topics in Middle Grade, a guest post by Heather Murphy Capps
These days, writing and recommending books about tough subjects can feel risky…but there’s never been a time when it’s more necessary to offer readers greater depth and breadth of subjects and diversity of characters.
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: Miss Meteor by Tehlor Kay Mejia and Anna-Marie McLemore
This layered story with fantastic characters shows that trying to blend in sometimes just hides the many wonderful ways you were made to stand out. Like Chicky and Lita find out, there is space for you. You belong, just as you are.
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Book Review: Tigers, Not Daughters by Samantha Mabry
This is a warning and a celebration of what happens when girls become feral, become hunters, when girls decide they are not sorry. A fierce story of heartbreak, grief, connection, and the complications of the human heart.
Book Review: When the Moon was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore
Publisher’s description To everyone who knows them, best friends Miel and Sam are as strange as they are inseparable. Roses grow out of Miel’s wrist, and rumors say that she spilled out of a water tower when she was five. Sam is known for the moons he paints and hangs in the trees and for […]
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