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Review of With the Fire on High
With the Fire on Highby Elizabeth AcevedoHigh School HarperTeen 392 pp.5/19 978-0-06-266283-5 $17.99e-book ed. 978-0-06-266285-9 $9.99High school senior Emoni Santiago, whose “Puerto Rican side is as Black as [her] Black American side,” is many things — an aspiring chef, a proud North Philly native, a reserved student who keeps to...
Review of On the Come Up
On the Come Upby Angie ThomasHigh School Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 453 pp. g2/19 978-0-06-249856-4 $18.99e-book ed. 978-0-06-249857-1 $12.99If reading The Hate U Give (rev. 3/17) was like listening to 2Pac, intent on capturing the emotional impact of injustice, On the Come Up is more like Biggie, focusing on the experience...
Review of Pride
Prideby Ibi ZoboiHigh School Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 291 pp. g9/18 978-0-06-256404-7 $17.99e-book ed. 978-0-06-256407-8 $9.99Zuri Benitez is a proud Haitian-Dominican teen who loves her four sisters and her parents, and despite others’ negative perceptions, she especially loves her Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn. When the wealthy African American Darcy brothers, Darius...
Review of The Flying Girl: How Aída de Acosta Learned to Soar
The Flying Girl: How Aída de Acosta Learned to Soarby Margarita Engle;
illus. by Sara PalaciosPrimary Atheneum 40 pp.3/18 978-1-4814-4502-3 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-4814-4503-0 $10.99In this slightly fictionalized account (with brief invented dialogue) Engle and Palacios introduce readers to Aída de Acosta (1884–1962), who defied the sexist attitudes of her era...
