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Lightning Round

Tonguebreaker by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Batman Earth One, Vol. 3 by Geoff Johns

Solomon's Vineyard by Jonathan Latimer

Antartica: Journeys to the South Pole by Walter Dean Myers

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

July 12, 2021 by Jake Leave a Comment

A few reviews of shorter books that I read quickly over the weekend and didn’t have extra time to flesh out… Tonguebreaker ***** Coming to terms with a society that doesn’t want you based on your body…and creating your own space instead…has to be a challenging thing. Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha bares her soul to the world in this collection of poems and one-act plays. Her use of language to lecture gripped me and her exploration of what it means to live in this world, to […]

Filed Under: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: Antartica, Batman, Batman Earth One, BIPOC, Disability, exploration, Geoff Johns, Graphic Novel, hardboiled, Jonathan Latimer, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, mystery, New York City, Newberry Medal winner, poetry, Rebecca Stead, Solomon's Vineyard, Tonguebreaker, walter dean myers, Young Adult

Jake's CBR13 Review No:110 · Genres: Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Poetry · Tags: Antartica, Batman, Batman Earth One, BIPOC, Disability, exploration, Geoff Johns, Graphic Novel, hardboiled, Jonathan Latimer, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, mystery, New York City, Newberry Medal winner, poetry, Rebecca Stead, Solomon's Vineyard, Tonguebreaker, walter dean myers, Young Adult ·
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Then they don’t have to depend on the wind anymore.

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

May 22, 2018 by melanir Leave a Comment

When You Reach Me won the Newbery Medal in 2010, and it kind of let me wondering if 2009 was just a bad year for published children’s novels. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a fine novel but I don’t think it holds up the way other Newbery winners have in the past. It is very strong on the nostalgia factor though, which makes me wonder if that is one of the reasons it won. Nostalgia for the Medal awarders obviously, not the children who read […]

Filed Under: Children's Books Tagged With: Newbery Medal winner, Rebecca Stead

melanir's CBR10 Review No:28 · Genres: Children's Books · Tags: Newbery Medal winner, Rebecca Stead ·
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“People don’t want to think about it.’ ‘I can see why,’ I said. ‘It makes my head hurt.’”

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

March 13, 2017 by badkittyuno 1 Comment

I downloaded this after reading Ellesfena’s review, and enjoyed it immensely. It’s an odd little book, but comes together beautifully at the end. I literally got goosebumps at the big reveal, when everything finally made sense. “I still think about the letter you asked me to write. It nags at me, even though you’re gone and there’s no one to give it to anymore. Sometimes I work on it in my head, trying to map out the story you asked me to tell, about everything that […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: badkittyuno, Rebecca Stead

badkittyuno's CBR9 Review No:56 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: badkittyuno, Rebecca Stead ·
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Everything in its Right Place

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

February 26, 2017 by Ellesfena 4 Comments

Miranda is a sixth-grader, living in New York City. Her best friend is a neighbor boy named Sal, and they spend almost all their time together. When the book opens, Miranda and Sal are starting to part ways for reasons that she doesn’t fully understand. Her mother is auditioning for a game show, and there’s a crazy homeless guy on her corner that scares her. Suddenly she starts getting anonymous notes from someone who seems to know things about her that shouldn’t be possible. This […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: New York City, Rebecca Stead, Young Adult

Ellesfena's CBR9 Review No:9 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: New York City, Rebecca Stead, Young Adult ·
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Homage to Madeleine L’Engle

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

August 23, 2016 by ElCicco 3 Comments

The new school year has just bgun for my two middle schoolers, and this novel by Rebecca Stead is just the sort of thing you would want to put into the hands of kids that age. Stead’s 2010 Newberry winner is an homage to Madeleine L’Engle and her classic novel A Wrinkle in Time. As in that novel, our heroine, 12-year-old Miranda, finds herself grappling with the concept of time travel, but unlike Meg Murry, she will not be the traveller. Earthbound Miranda has to […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: CBR8, ElCicco, Fiction, Madeleine L'Engle, ReadWomen, Rebecca Stead, When You Reach Me, YA

ElCicco's CBR8 Review No:40 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: CBR8, ElCicco, Fiction, Madeleine L'Engle, ReadWomen, Rebecca Stead, When You Reach Me, YA ·
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