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Tag: Magical Realism

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.

September 22, 2020 by Amanda MacGregor

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.

March 24, 2020 by Amanda MacGregor

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.

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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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