Twelve-year-old Aru Shah has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at school. While her classmates are jetting off to family vacations in exotic locales, she’ll be spending her autumn break at home, in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture, waiting for her mom to return from her latest…
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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…
Mark of Athena Review
Percy, Hazel, Frank, Leo, Piper, Jason, and Annabeth are finally together. They hoped to be able to speak with the Roman camp peacefully, but then the Argo II randomly attacked Camp Jupiter during the meeting. Now, the Roman camp is preparing for war with Camp Half-Blood. The team would like to focus on preventing the…
The Red Pyramid Review
Carter and Sadie Kane, ages 14 and 12 respectively, do not know each other much at all although they are brother and sister. When they were 8 and 6, their mother got into some sort of accident with their father and she died. Her parents wanted to take both children in, as they blamed Julius…