Publisher: Levine Querido

Review: Neverforgotten by Alejandra Algorta

Review: Neverforgotten by Alejandra Algorta

Posted April 20, 2022 by Richetta in Book Reviews, Middle Grades

They say you never forget how to ride a bike…but is that really true? Beautiful Words and Flow For some stories that I read, an automatic calm-voiced narrator pops into my head. Neverforgotten by Alejandra Algorta is one of those stories. The words feel like the illustrations. As you read, you feel like you are […]

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Review: The Last Cuentista

Review: The Last Cuentista

Posted January 29, 2022 by Richetta in #ownvoices, Book Reviews, Middle Grades

Storytelling, Mexican Folklore and Futurism I don’t really know how to start this review other than to state that The Last Cuentista is absolutely awesome and beautiful. If you read Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer in a Day” and other short stories in school, then you will immediately recognize that this middle grade book is a […]

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Book Review: Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask (Young Readers Edition)

Book Review: Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask (Young Readers Edition)

I wish I had this book when I was younger and asking some of the questions that were covered in Dr. Anton Treuer’s Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask. I grew up in Michigan and I first began learning about Indigenous culture in elementary school from an Ojibway educator […]

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