New middle grade realistic fiction 2024
I'm branching out from all the speculative fiction I've been reading to catch up on some realistic fiction. Here are two of my new favorites! The first one is called "The Partition Project" by Saadia Faruqi. She also wrote this one that I liked a lot too called "A Place at the Table" It's about Maha (short for Mahnoor) who lives in Texas with her loving parents and her older brother. The story opens with the family at the airport getting ready to pick up Dadi, who is Maha's dad's adoptive mother. Dadi is going to come and live with the family and Maha is meant to act as a kind of a baby-sitter to Dadi. Maha is not happy about losing her bedroom (she gets her own room, but it's up in the attic) to Dadi and she's struggling to connect to Dadi, who is often abrupt and and kind of cranky. Maha's deepest passion is journalism and she's very excited when her teacher assigns them a documentary project. Except she has no idea w