The compelling story of a girl’s fight to regain her life and dreams after being forced into indentured servitude. Life is quiet and ordinary in Amal’s Pakistani village, but she had no complaints, and besides, she’s busy pursuing her dream of becoming a teacher one day. Her dreams are temporarily dashed when–as the eldest daughter–she…
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Alone Together Blog Tour Plus Review
Alone Together by Sarah J. Donovan Genre: YA Contemporary Fiction Release Date: May 1st 2018 Summary: Sadie Carter’s life is a mess, as wavy and tangled as her unruly hair. At 15, she is barely surviving the chaos of her large Catholic family. When one sister becomes pregnant and another is thrown out, her unemployed dad…
Top Ten Tuesday: Books I’d Slay a Lion to Get Early
Hello! Top Ten Tuesdays are a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. I know that this one will technically be out today, but I don’t have the money today, so getting it for free early would have been awesome. May is going to be a good month, I only wish that I had…
No Sad Songs Review
18-year-old Gabe LoScuda was a normal high school student with two happy parents and an ailing grandfather. When his parents die in a car crash, he is put in charge of taking care of his ailing grandfather. However, his grandfather isn’t suffering from something like bad arthritis. His grandfather suffers from Alzheimer’s and is losing…
Top Ten Tuesdays: Favorite Diverse Reads!
Top Ten Tuesdays are a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week is a free week so my topic will be favorite diverse reads. As an African American female author, I love to read books by diverse authors with diverse characters. Therefore, here are ten of my favorite diverse reads. 1) The…