It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is a weekly blog hop hosted by Kellee and Ricki at Unleashing Readers which focuses on sharing what we’re reading. 

This Kid Lit version of IMWAYR focuses primarily on books marketed for kids and teens, but books for readers of all ages are shared. We love this community and how it offers opportunities to share and recommend books with each other. The original IMWAYR, with an adult literature focus, was started by Sheila at Book Journeys and is now hosted by Kathryn at The Book Date. 

The Kid Lit IMWAYR was co-created by Kellee & Jen at Teach Mentor Texts. 

I post about my reading here, at the YA blog Rich in Color and as crystalreading at Storygraph. 

The Past Week: I finished listening to Interabled: True Stories About Love and Disability from Squirmy and Grubs and Other Interabled Couples (Adult nonfiction) by Shane & Hannah Burcaw. It was great to hear so many love stories and I am thankful that they shared so much of themselves with the world. We have so much ableism to unlearn.

For the Trans Rights Readathon I read The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation (Adult memoir) by Raquel Willis in addition to Light from Uncommon Stars (Adult Sci-fi) by Ryka Aoki and I Shall Never Fall in Love (YA Jane Austen inspired graphic novel) by Hari Conner.

I finally read Sheine Lende, the prequel to Elatsoe which I loved, by Darcie Little Badger. This was another excellent middle grade/young adult title that had a little mystery, ghost animals, family, and friends.

I read an excellent middle grade novel about chronic pain and fencing - It's All of Nothing, Vale by Adrea Beatriz Arango. 

I finished Fledgling by S.K. Ali which is a dystopian YA and it was part of the Ramadan Readathon. It was great being in a group chat with many people reading it together in four portions so we didn't spoil things for each other. Many of the participants were Muslim so they noticed some things that went past me and it was nice to have that context. Some of them were also fans of S.K. Ali so they picked up on references to characters from her previous books. So cool. 

I read quite a few picture books and one that stood out was Niki Nakayama: A Chef's Tale in 13 Bites by Jamie Michalak & Debbi Michiko Florence with Yuko Jones. I love good books about food. 

Coming Up Next: I am currently reading Another Day in the Death of America for a book club, but I'm not sure what I will grab next. I have quite a stack from the many libraries I visited over break. Happy reading!