SSYRA 3-5 2022-realistic fiction
I'm just NOW getting around to reading the new crop of SSYRA 3-5 books for the coming year. It turns out, I'd already read a few of them. Here's a link to two of the books I already reviewed. The link has reviews for Amari and the Night Brothers by BB Alston as well as The Lion of Mars by Jennifer Holm. And I'm sure I'd already read some of the other ones but I just couldn't find... oh well. Anyway, here are two more that I think you're going to love. The first one is a graphic novel and it's called Measuring Up by Lily Lamotte. It's about Cici who moved to Seattle from Taiwan. She desperately misses her grandmother and REALLY wants to figure out a way to get her to come and stay. Moving anytime is hard, but moving to a new country with a different language and culture is even more difficult. Cici worries that the kids will think she's weird (when she brings her lunch to school on the f...