Showing posts with label immigrants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label immigrants. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 29, 2018

FINISHED: 
Yang, Kelly. (2018). Front Desk. New York: Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic.

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STARTED:
Funke, Cornelia. (2018). The Griffin's Feather [Dragon Rider #2]. New York: Chicken House/Scholastic.

[Remember LOVING the first one...]

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Saturday, December 16, 2017

FINISHED:
Kullab, Samya. (2017). Escape from Syria. Buffalo, NY: Firefly.

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STARTED:
Babbitt, Natalie. (1975). Tuck Everlasting. New York: Square Fish/Farrar Straus Giroux.

[Was home sick without a new book... chose this one - one of my all time favorites - to read again for comfort...]

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Tuesday, November 14, 2017

FINISHED: 
Eggers, Dave. (2017). Her Right Foot. San Francisco: Chronicle.

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STARTED:
Pullman, Philip. (2017). The Book of Dust: Volume One: La Belle Sauvage. New York: Knopf.

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Friday, March 17, 2017

FINISHED:
Yoon, Nicola. (2016). The Sun is Also a Star. New York: Delacorte/Random House.

[Jamaican Natasha and Korean American Daniel spend the day wandering around New York determining that they are meant to be together.  Drawn together while each focused on a potentially life-changing task (he has an interview with a Yale graduate, she is hoping to prevent her family from being deported back to Jamaica that evening), the two, through alternating chapters in each of their voices, examine the links between life and love, and coincidence and fate.]

STARTED:
Standish, Ali. (2017). The Ethan I Was Before. New York: HarperCollins.

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