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The Outliers [The Outliers Trilogy, Book 1] by Kimberly McCreight [in School Library Journal]

06 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Still reeling from her mother's sudden death, Wylie – already fighting debilitating anxiety – has become even more self-isolating. When her former best friend's mother shows up desperately seeking her daughter Cassie, Wylie doesn't confess that the two have barely seen each other since Cassie...

Tell Us Something True by Dana Reinhardt [in School Library Journal]

05 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Young Adult Readers

River Dean, 17, is not a bad kid: he's got warm relationships with his family (except his runaway dad), does well at school, and has good friends. But when Penny, the love of his life, dumps him, River starts making awful decisions, starting with stumbling...

Moo by Sharon Creech [in School Library Journal]

04 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Repost

Twelve-year-old Reena's outburst during a family conversation about parental careers, geography, and the future "ten years from now" catapults the family from a city of monuments, subways, and museums and lands them in rural Maine. Her expectations of her new home include lobsters, blueberries, beaches,...

Ghost [Track series: Book 1] by Jason Reynolds [in School Library Journal]

03 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Black/African American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW Guy Lockard has assumed the mantle of narrator-of-choice for Jason Reynolds’s fiction: Ghost (2016 National Book Award finalist) is Lockard's third Reynolds title, following As Brave as You and Rashad's chapters in All American Boys. Here, as seventh grader Castle "Ghost" Crenshaw, Lockard performs...

The Best Man by Richard Peck [in School Library Journal]

02 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW The latest from Newbery Medal-winning author Richard Peck takes on important and timely topics – marriage, sexuality, manhood, nontraditional families –and alchemizes them into an affecting story full of warmth, acceptance, and understanding. Sixth grader Archer Magill narrates what he calls "A Tale of...

The Boy & the Bindi by Vivek Shraya, illustrated by Rajini Perara [in School Library Journal]

28 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Canadian, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Repost, South Asian, South Asian American

A young boy, curious about his “Ammi’s dot … a bright and pretty spot,” innocently asks, “Why do you wear that dot?/What’s so special about that spot?” His mother crouches to eye level so he can touch her forehead as she explains, “It’s not a...

The Mortifications by Derek Palacio [in Library Journal]

21 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Caribbean, Caribbean American, Cuban, Cuban American, Fiction, Latina/o/x, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW A mother, Soledad, flees Cuba, abandoning her revolutionary husband Uxmal and absconding with their 12-year-old twins Ulises and Isabel. She bypasses Miami for Hartford, CT, finding work as a court stenographer, making her the transcriber of other people's words. Although Uxmal’s presence never seems to...

Public Library and Other Stories by Ali Smith [in Library Journal]

20 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, British, Fiction, Repost, Short Stories

The dozen stories in Ali Smith's (How To Be Both) latest collection share a common characteristic: a contagious sense of wordplay, from obscure etymology ("buxom" originally meant "obedient, compliant, gracious") in "Last," to multiple meanings of "fraud" linking D.H. Lawrence to credit card theft in...

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee [in Booklist]

19 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese, Korean, Korean American, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW A decade after her international best-selling debut, Free Food for Millionaires (2007), Min Jin Lee’s follow-up is an exquisite, haunting epic that crosses almost a century, four generations, and three countries while depicting an ethnic Korean family that cannot even claim a single shared...

Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson [in Library Journal]

15 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Black/African American, Fiction, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW August, an Ivy League-pedigreed, peripatetic anthropologist who studies death in the farthest reaches of the world, returns home to Brooklyn to bury her father. A chance subway meeting with a childhood friend plunges August back into memories of another Brooklyn of the 1970s, when...

Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team by Steve Sheinkin [in Shelf Awareness]

14 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Native American/First Nations/Indigenous Peoples, Nonfiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers

When 19-year-old Jim Thorpe (1888-1955) joined Pennsylvania's Carlisle Indian Industrial School's football team in 1907, it was the fastest team in the country, "the most creative, the most fun to watch." Already the school's track star, Thorpe was, self-admittedly, "a scarecrow dressed for football" when...

The Boy Who Escaped Paradise by J.M. Lee, translated by Chi-Young Kim [in Library Journal]

13 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, North Korean, Repost, Translation

*STARRED REVIEW "There's magic in this world. And miracles." In his second translated work to hit stateside (after The Investigation), bestselling Korean author J.M. Lee – again linguistically enabled by gifted translator Chi-Young Kim – will make you believe. Lee's silent protagonist sits in a New York...

The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen [in Library Journal]

12 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Repost, Vietnamese, Vietnamese American

*STARRED REVIEW Although publishing 10 months after Viet Thanh Nguyen won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for The Sympathizer, this collection precedes his novel by decades (the earliest entry dates from 1997). In a pre-Pulitzer interview, Nguyen credits his 15-year experience "characterized by drudgery and despair, laced with...

Tell the Truth & Shame the Devil: The Life, Legacy, and Love of My Son Michael Brown by Lezley McSpadden with Lyah Beth LeFlore [in Library Journal]

09 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Black/African American, Memoir, Repost

Michael Brown was shot to death by police officer Darren Wilson on August 9, 2014, in Ferguson, MO. Lezley McSpadden didn't see her 18-year-old son die, "but as his mother, I do know one thing better than anyone, and that's how to tell my son's...

A Separation by Katie Kitamura [in Library Journal]

08 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, British, European, Fiction, Japanese American, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW Although separated from philandering husband Christopher for six months, a London woman agrees to continue to postpone "the process…of telling people." Almost a month has passed since she last talked to Christopher, rendering her unable to answer his mother Isabella's unexpected request for his...

Author Interview: Shobha Rao [in Bloom]

07 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Repost, Short Stories, South Asian, South Asian American

The Recovered & The Unrestored Let me begin with a reader’s confession: Without a doubt, Shobha Rao’s debut, An Unrestored Woman, is the best short fiction collection I’ve read this year. These dozen stories are savage and empathetic, brutal and lyrical, mournful and celebratory as well. At...

The Kindness of Enemies by Leila Aboulela [in Library Journal]

05 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, African, Arab American, Audio, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Repost

*STARRED REVIEW In a dual narrative, Leila Aboulela (Minaret; Lyrics Alley), winner of the inaugural Caine Prize for African Writing, exposes the impossibility of definitively taking sides. In 2010 Scotland, the global war on terror pixilates the lives of history professor Natasha, her student Oz, and...

The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See [in Booklist]

02 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost

In a remote mountain village, the survival of an Akha tribe, one of China’s 55 ethnic minorities, depends on tea. Rigid traditions prohibit Li-yan from keeping her newborn. She saves her daughter by leaving her in a nearby town, wrapped in blankets with a tea...

Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey [in Library Journal]

30 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Audio, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Repost

Colin Dickey (Afterlives of the Saints) cites a statistic that 45 percent of Americans believe in ghosts, and 30 percent profess to have had firsthand encounters. Such undying fascination means there was no shortage of stories to choose from when Dickey spent several years traveling...

Towers Falling by Jewell Parker Rhodes [in School Library Journal]

28 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Black/African American, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Repost

The Avalon Family Residence might sound nice, but it's not: "peeling paint, cockroaches…our tiny room." Dèja, her parents, and her two younger siblings are homeless, currently staying in a Brooklyn shelter. Her father can't work, and her exhausted mother is menially employed. As Dèja starts fifth...

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