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The Isobel Journal: Just a Girl from Where Nothing Really Happens by Isobel Harrop

03 Oct, by SIBookDragon in British, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Memoir, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

The titular Isobel – the 18-at-the-time-of-publication author here – knows how to make the eponymous 'nothing' into quite the entertaining 'something.' Although she grew up "squished somewhere between Manchester and Liverpool," she's now living somewhere "down in the South of England ...

Fire with Fire [Burn for Burn Trilogy 2] by Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian

29 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Fiction, Korean American, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers

Even more than Reeve who is lying in a hospital bed – his intended college football career probably shattered – Lillia, Kat, and Mary are the ones who need to recover from the shocker that was Homecoming. Guilt, for now, is as paralyzing as any cast...

In Real Life by Cory Doctorow and Jen Wang

26 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Middle Grade Readers, Young Adult Readers

I'm too much of a Luddite to know much about online gaming and avatars and such, but even a techno-backwards oldster like me can appreciate this feisty, original celebration of girl power. [Thankfully, the introduction offers just the right overview you'll need to understand enough.]...

Portraits of Hispanic American Heroes by Juan Felipe Herrera, illustrated by Raúl Colón

25 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Biography, Children/Picture Books, Latina/o/x, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

It's National Hispanic Heritage Month ...

brown girl dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

17 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Black/African American, Memoir, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Poetry, Verse Novel/Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

Not to play favorites, but since the 2014 National Book Awards Longlist For Young People’s Literature was announced earlier this week, I'm putting my bet on Jacqueline Woodson’s childhood memoir-in-verse, brown girl dreaming, to not only to make the shortlist (announced October 15), but go all the...

Author Interview: Ellen Oh [in Bloom]

10 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Korean, Korean American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Ellen Oh, author of the acclaimed Prophecy trilogy – starring a third-century, yellow-eyed, teenage supergirl demon slayer – is channeling her own colorful fighting spirit. Two-thirds of her series, Prophecy and Warrior, are available now. King hits shelves this coming December. In the meantime, Oh herself has gone...

Prophecy and Warrior by Ellen Oh + Author Profile [in Bloom]

08 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Korean, Korean American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Ellen Oh’s Prophecy Trilogy and Why #WeNeedDiverseBooks For Ellen Oh, good things seem to happen in threes. She’s the proud mother of three daughters. She’s had three careers – lawyer, professor, and finally a published writer (after 40!). The third book she wrote got her a three-book...

Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands by Chris Bohjalian

07 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Armenian American, Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers

Here's another title you might consider choosing to stick in your ears: 1. because this, Chris Bohjalian’s latest, is read by his own daughter, Grace Experience Blewer, who he credits as "instrumental in the creation of [his protagonist's] voice," who taught him "a lot – I...

Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit (vol. 10) by Motoro Mase, translated by John Werry, English adaptation by Kristina Blachere

05 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Translation, Young Adult Readers

So this is it ...

Hidden Like Anne Frank: 14 True Stories of Survival by Marcel Prins & Peter Henk Steenhuis, translated by Laura Watkinson

01 Sep, by SIBookDragon in European, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Translation, Young Adult Readers

Anne Frank, the world's most famous hidden child during the Holocaust, was one of 28,000 Jews in the Netherlands alone who went into hiding. She was one of 12,000 who were betrayed and didn't survive. Among the 16,000 who lived, was award-winning filmmaker and cameraman...

I Remember Beirut by Zeina Abirached, translated by Edward Gauvin

29 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Lebanese, Memoir, Middle Eastern, Nonfiction, Translation, Young Adult Readers

As in my post for Beirut’s preceding, award-winning companion title, A Game for Swallows, I find I need to start at book's end. "I remember Georges Perec!" the final image announces. Initially seeming to be unrelated to the rest of the book, the unexpected homage to the experimental...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Andrew Fukuda’s The Hunt Series

27 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Chinese American, Fiction, Japanese American, Middle Grade Readers, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2014, Young Adult Readers

Burn for Burn [Burn for Burn Trilogy 1] by Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian

26 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Fiction, Korean American, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers

The first of a trilogy (#3 debuts next month; I'm arriving on Jar Island a little late), Burn is inarguably shocking, but it definitely sets the stage for more chills to come. Mary, who left Jar Island in 7th grade, is back in 11th completely transformed. Lillia, once...

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Ellen Wittlinger’s Parrotfish

25 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2014, Young Adult Readers

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Mitali Perkins’ First Daughter: Extreme American Makeover

22 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Middle Grade Readers, South Asian, South Asian American, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2014, Young Adult Readers

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Crystal Chan’s Bird

20 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Audio, Black/African American, Caribbean American, Chinese American, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Latina/o/x, Middle Grade Readers, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2014, Young Adult Readers

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Ambelin Kwaymullina’s The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf

15 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Australian, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2014, Young Adult Readers

Discover WeNeedDiverseBooks with Shaun Tan’s The Arrival

13 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Australian, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Middle Grade Readers, WeNeedDiverseBooks, WNDB.SummerReadingSeries2014, Young Adult Readers

God Loves Hair by Vivek Shraya, illustrated by Juliana Neufeld

11 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Indian American, Memoir, Short Stories, South Asian American, Young Adult Readers

Here's a book you just have to hold and feel and breathe in. Although the snapshot of the cover offers a hint of its unique size, not until you're gently flipping through the pages can you appreciate that you're clasping Toronto-based music/performance/literature/film artist Vivek Shraya’s precious little gem. Poignantly...

In Clothes Called Fat by Moyoco Anno, translation by Vertical, Inc.

08 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Translation, Young Adult Readers

Holy moly, what a difference a book makes ...

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