so-soBrownstone, by Samuel Teer (illustr. Mar Julia) (2024)
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Premise: A New York teenager meets her father for the first time one summer and learns about her Guatemalan heritage.
Review: This is sweet and effective, if very, very simplistic. It does deal with some hard subject matter — child abandonment, biracial identities, homophobia, and gentrification — but in ways that came off a bit too easy. ⬇️
pickWow I loved this book! Our main character delivers food during the worst winter ever. She lives in a town that took on a lot of radiation due to an explosion and some of the residents show the aftereffect. Cute graphics and interesting story. I will continue reading the series.
😂 #sorrynotsorry if I spam you guys with pages from this middle grade graphic novel take on Beowulf.
pickMy least favorite in the series but still a decent read.
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I was looking for something from Zerocalcare set in #Italy for #FoodandLit and stumbled on the tagged book, about the democratic Yezidi self-governing enclave of Sinjar/Shengal in #Iraq, and couldn't pass it up. It's one of those places we hardly ever hear about. All you expect from Zerocalcare: self-reflective, left-wing, informative and depressing, with a glint of tempered hope.
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Bookish Pair: For a middle grade novel about a girl connecting with her heritage, Celia C. Pérez‘s Tumble (2022 14h