Elizabeth Reviews: Speak

Speakby Laurie Halse AndersonGenre: YA, fictionOriginally published 1999 It is easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you...

Towering: Book Review

Title: ToweringAuthor: Alex FlinnGenre: Contemporary FantasySeries: stand-aloneFairy-tale Inspiration: RapunzelAge group: Young Adult ​Thoughts The June book for our Enchanted Garden Book Club is Towering by Alex Flinn. This is a Young Adult,...

Elizabeth Reviews: Towering

Toweringby Alex FlinnGenre: Fantasy, Fairy Tale Adaptation, YA Fiction I had not been outside in years. I wasn’t sure how many, exactly, because I didn’t keep track from the beginning. I didn’t realize I’d need to. But my dresses had been...

Elizabeth Reviews: All American Boys

All American Boysby Jason Reynolds and Brendan KielyGenre: YA, fictionOriginally published 2015 I wasn’t sure what I was drawing.That’s not true.I knew exactly what I was drawing. The only thing I could. I was going to re-create the scene, what...

Elizabeth Reviews: Stamped

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and Youby Ibram X. Kendi and Jason ReynoldsGenre: Non-fictionOriginally Published 2020, a remix of Stamped From the Beginning (2016) This isn’t a history book….Instead, what this is, is a book that contains...