New middle grade realistic fiction!
We’ve been on summer vacation and I had time to do some great reading, but due to lamentable internet access during our travels, I’m just now uploading them! The first one is called “For Black Girls Like Me” by Mariama Lockington. It’s about Makeda, who at the start of the book, is crossing the country, from Baltimore to Albuquerque in a car with her mom and her big sister. Makeda’s dad has taken a new job as a cellist that required the move and the move also required that Makeda’s mom has to give up her job as a violinist. Makeda was adopted by her parents when they found they couldn’t have a second child and Makeda is African American and her parents and sister are white. Makeda is worried about the move-particularly moving away from her best friend, Lena, who is also African American and was adopted by a white family. What’s great about this one is learning about what it’s like to navigate a world where most of the people you know (and even ...