It's Monday! What are you reading? is a meme hosted by Sheila at Book Journeys. Jen Vincent over at Teach Mentor Texts and Kellee Moye from Unleashing Readers decided to put a children's and YA spin on it and they invite anyone with an interest to join in. You can participate by creating your post then visit one of their sites to add your site. Finally, visit at least three participant blogs and comment to spread the love.
If you want to know more about what I am reading, visit me at my Goodreads shelf. Images via Goodreads unless otherwise noted.
Last Week on the Blogs:
At Rich in Color - YA Pura Belpré Titles
Last Week in Reading:
See No Color was an excellent find. Alex is a biracial teen who was adopted into a white family. She is beginning to question some of the attitudes around race that she experiences from her family and others. The internal and external dialogue around race is valuable. I loved this review by Sarah Hannah Gómez. It's cool to have an adopted character written by an author who was also transracially adopted.
Ack, I am running out of time to talk about all of the titles. The other two that really stand out are the nonfiction titles. Pride: Celebrating Diversity & Community was a wonderful middle grade nonfiction title looking at the history and the shaping of Pride celebrations. The photos are fantastic and the information is delivered conversationally so it's an easy read. Maybe Something Beautiful is the story of a community beautifying their public spaces. It's illustrated by one of the people the story is about too, Rafael Lopez. That makes it a little magical.
The Coming Week:
These books are coming my way and I will start at least a few of them. I also have Death by Toilet Paper on my shelf here at home. I wish you a wonderful week of reading.
Reading Challenge Updates:
Goodreads Challenge - 278/550 Diversity on the Shelf 2016 - 140/225 (goal = 50% of my books by and/or about POC)
LGBTQIA Challenge - 13/31
ReadPOC Challenge - 100/125
#MustReadin2016 - 19/54
Nonfiction Picture Book Challenge - 61/10
Around the World with Books 2016
See No Color sounds very good, Crystal, & like others, I'm looking forward to Maybe Something Beautiful. Thanks for the "pride" recommendation, too. Enjoy your week!
ReplyDeleteMaybe Something Beautiful sounds inspiring, the community I'm working in right now is putting together a series of murals to beautify their space and bring people together.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Something Beautiful sounds inspiring, the community I'm working in right now is putting together a series of murals to beautify their space and bring people together.
ReplyDeleteFederle's book is on my summer list - I've heard great things about it.
ReplyDeleteI love how you share your finds with us. :)
ReplyDeleteFederle's book needs to be on my summer TBR. I loved his Nate series.
Happy reading this week :)
I'm looking forward to your thoughts on the Brene Brown books. I loved Daring Greatly, but abandoned I Thought It Was Just Me because listening to a whole book about shame was really bumming me out. I felt like Daring Greatly was uplifting while I Thought It Was Just Me was super depressing (at least the part I listened to). I'm hoping The Gift of Imperfection is more like Daring Greatly.
ReplyDeleteI've been hearing great things about Federle's new book. I read maybe a chapter of it and couldn't get into it before it was due. I'll have to try again!
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