BookDragon Siblings Tag
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi [in Library Journal]
03 Aug, by in Adult Readers, African, Audio, Black/African American, Repost, Young Adult Readers
*STARRED REVIEW Two hundred fifty years ago in what is modern-day Ghana, two half-sisters are each given a special stone by their mother. Effia marries an Englishman and lives in the ignominiously named Castle, the center of the African Gold Coast slavery trade. Esi is temporarily...
The Last Cherry Blossom by Kathleen Burkinshaw [in Shelf Awareness]
20 Jul, by in Fiction, Japanese, Japanese American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost
Descended from a noble samurai family, 12-year-old Yuriko Ishikawa enjoys a privileged life in Hiroshima, Japan. While World War II rages on multiple continents, for now the seventh-grader exists in relative peace. Even when she's at school, with U.S. B-29s flying overhead, her legs wobbling...
Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez [in School Library Journal]
12 Jul, by in Audio, Fiction, Latina/o/x, Repost, Young Adult Readers
*STARRED REVIEW The 1937 school explosion in New London, TX, remains the deadliest school disaster in U.S. history. With that real-life tragedy as a starting point, Ashley Hope Pérez adds greater volatility with race, class, and family dysfunction, by introducing a love story between two teens from...
How I Became a North Korean by Krys Lee [in Library Journal]
08 Jul, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, Korean American, North Korean, Repost
*STARRED REVIEW After the brutal murder of his father and the wrenching separation from his mother and sister, Yongju must survive a new life of deprivation after his privileged upbringing as the only son of one of North Korea’s power elite. Danny, a misfit immigrant teen...
Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman, translated by Henning Koch [in Library Journal]
03 Jul, by in Adult Readers, Audio, European, Fiction, Repost, Swedish, Translation
One Monday in January, 63-year-old Britt-Marie enters an unemployment office, having last worked as a waitress in 1978. After decades of fastidious living – perfect cutlery drawers, coasters under every drink, dinner at six, beds disinfected with baking soda – Britt-Marie needs a job. She's left...
The Past by Tessa Hadley [in Library Journal]
09 Jun, by in Adult Readers, Audio, British, British Asian, Fiction, Repost
Four siblings gather in their childhood home to determine its future. The oldest is the most distant, unsure she'll even stay the full three weeks they've planned to be there. The middle sister arrives with two children, complaining about her missing husband. The youngest sister...
Author Interview: Lynne Kutsukake [in Bloom]
07 Jun, by in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Canadian, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Fiction, Japanese, Japanese American, Repost
“Enemy aliens” is an all too familiar label, although just who gets thusly labeled seems to change with the political winds. With such an aggravated election year, these two words won’t be disappearing from the media anytime soon. Beyond our northern border, our Canadian neighbors did...
The Key to Extraordinary by Natalie Lloyd [in School Library Journal]
05 Jun, by in Audio, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Repost
*STARRED REVIEW Emma Casey, her brother Topher, and their Granny Blue call the Boneyard Café home. On weekends, Emma conducts tours of the haunted graveyard next door, while Topher warms visitors with his irresistible peach-lavender muffins and famous Boneyard Brew (aka hot chocolate). When their cozy haven...
The Art of Being Normal by Lisa Williamson [in Shelf Awareness]
03 Jun, by in British, Fiction, Repost, Young Adult Readers
While his 8-year-old classmates wrote about wanting to be an actress, prime minister or even Harry Potter, David Piper had a six-word wish for his future: "I want to be a girl." At 14, David's wish has only become more fervent, as his traitorous body...
The Land of Forgotten Girls by Erin Entrada Kelly [in School Library Journal]
01 Jun, by in Audio, Fiction, Filipina/o American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost
*STARRED REVIEW Once upon a time, Soledad had two sisters and two loving parents. But tragedy can happen to anyone at any time, and suddenly, Sol and her younger sister, Ming, are transplanted to the other side of the world in a run-down apartment in Louisiana,...
And After Many Days by Jowhor Ile [in Library Journal]
04 May, by in Adult Readers, African, Audio, Black/African American, Fiction, Repost
*STARRED REVIEW For the rest of his life, Ajie would be known as the last person to have seen Paul, the family’s exemplary, exceptional firstborn. On a Monday afternoon during Nigeria’s 1995 rainy season, 17-year-old Paul announces he’s visiting a friend in the next compound; he...