Binti is inextricably linked to her people via their traditions and beliefs, but she also desperately wants to learn, and this internal conflict sets the tone …
Tag Archives: Books
Character Conundrum: Annabeth Chase
Constant vigilance, it seems, is the only way to make a difference in the world’s view of who is important, and who is not.
The Real Boy by Anne Ursu
On an island where magic is contained by a forest of wizard-trees in a place called the Barrow, an eleven-year-old boy named Oscar lives in the basement of a magician’s shop
The Character Conundrum: Chasing Butterflies
Every night, I waited for Peter Pan to take me to Neverland. That’s not a joke. All you preteens waiting for your Hogwarts letter had no idea how bad it could really be. I wasn’t old enough to even consider that Peter Pan might be fictional. I really waited. And waited.
February Reading
This month I’ll be reading The Real Boy by Anne Ursu, about a young magician’s hand. Check out this review by Corrine Duyvis for disability in kidlit.
2017 New Year’s Resolutions
So it’s a new year again, and although January first means nothing in terms of the earth actually circling the sun, I suppose two thousand or so years of tradition count for something.
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