2025 Newbery Winner just announced! This was in my personal top 3 of the year! A fun time travel story set in 1999! Congrats to Erin Entrada Kelly!
https://www.ala.org/news/2025/01/american-library-association-announces-2025-you...
Last night I had the privilege to attend the Natl Figure Skating Pairs and had the best time with friends. Today, just couldn‘t settle in with any current reads and so I searched for “month” on Libby and I selected this. #MiddleGrade #ReadICT
pickThis is a story told through alternating timelines including Matthew in the U.S. in 2020 and 3 cousins in Soviet Ukraine and the U.S. in the 1930s. Mila has grown up never knowing want and believing the party propaganda, Nadiya‘s family has starved in the Holdomor but she manages to show up at Mila‘s door to ask for help, and Helen‘s family has immigrated to the U.S. but is still in touch with Nadiya.
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pickOverall I liked this historical fiction from the point of view of a girl who stows away on the Titanic, but there were a few issues for me as a reader. Hazel sneaks onto the ship and then makes herself way too visible, including spending time in the first class areas. She asks specific questions that provide lots of clear information about the flaws/mistakes that led to the catastrophe, and of course it all works out well for her in the end.
“…as you heal and grow, something beautiful and layered and solid and lasting is formed.”
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“I love you and I‘m sorry and hold on are the last things he says to me though I barley hear the words over the screaming in my mind.”
This story shows that, just like Nora, we all have things that scare us or make us feel sad, but we can find courage to keep going. After reading about Nora‘s adventure, think about a time you were brave or overcame something difficult.
pickThroughout the book we follow Nora, a young girl who faces unimaginable challenges after a flash flood separates her from her father during a climbing trip in the Arizona desert. Still grieving her mother, who was lost in a tragic shooting a year before, Nora struggles with the emotional and physical toll of survival. Now alone, she must confront her fears and face dangerous wildlife.
pickA typewriter & an introverted boy are trying to find out what happened to the boy's missing mother. It has serious "Where'd You Go, Bernadette" vibes, but without the humor. I thought it was sweet & loved the theme of not assuming you know what's happening inside someone else's head. Grief & pain can elicit such different reactions from people. The various reactions shown by the family felt so real to me. I loved the story & the typewriter's POV.
