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Tag: Memoirs
Book Review: A Pros and Cons List For Strong Feelings by Will Betke-Brunswick
A moving read for when you want to dig down into the sadness.
Post-It Note Reviews: Picture books, graphic novels, memoirs, and more!
Post-It Note reviews are a quick and easy way to share a bit about a book. Read on to learn more about a bunch of recent titles!
Book Review: Brave Face: A Memoir by Shaun David Hutchinson
This is a powerful and painfully honest memoir that looks at surviving while finding your place, your people, and self-acceptance.
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Book Review: Spinning by Tillie Walden
Publisher’s description Ignatz Award winner Tillie Walden’s powerful graphic memoir captures what it’s like to come of age, come out, and come to terms with leaving behind everything you used to know. It was the same every morning. Wake up, grab the ice skates, and head to the rink while the world was still dark. […]
Book Review: Prison Island, a Graphic Memoir by Colleen Frakes
The other day a fellow librarian contacted me and said she needed some good YA nonfiction recommendations, to which I replied PRISON ISLAND! Prison Island is a memoir told in graphic novel format about McNeil Island in the state of Washington. It was one of the last remaining prison islands. Colleen Frake’s family was one […]
Book review: Tomboy by Liz Prince
It’s not often that I find a book completely fantastic. It’s also not often that I find a character in YA and think, yes–finally! I was like that as a teen. I could have been that character. Or that character is someone I would actually have been friends with. Enter Liz Prince’s Tomboy, an utterly […]
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