A terrific ER/FCB! About a little girl in Africa with huge African Family – Dad is native and Mom is Canadian – So many fabulous cultural pieces to the story – showing differences/similarities. Very good . . . read more »
It took me a while to be comfortable with the “street dialect” if that’s the proper way to refer to the speech used by these inner city kids – but – that grew on me . . . read more »
A beautiful haunting hopeful fantasy – It reminds me of The Invention of Hugo Cabret in mood, setting, illustrations, tone – very quick but deep – a seemingly bizarre story but perfect! I want to . . . read more »
Wondering about weeding her books – they don’t go out often – guess I won’t weed this one – a charming old fashioned childhood story a little girl, tomboyish, with brothers learns to sew and . . . read more »
I read it quickly because I liked the two main characters – a girl and boy, both halflings and orphaned at birth and lots of fun elements from the world of the Fey but no . . . read more »
I wish I’d had time to re-read Shabanu & Haveli – bit I didn’t – I was confused at first about who everyone was and found I had to transfer my memory of Shabanu to . . . read more »
Funny very realistic look at the un-romantic side of keeping and riding horses – the main character is great – afraid of real danger but brave too – the horses are funny and dear and . . . read more »
About grief – harsh that a young girl has to find a stray dog to find comfort on the loss of her mother – spends her days alone in a cabin with severe weather – . . . read more »
I loved this fun book! A fairy tale type story but gritty – a real girl who refuses to be the stereotypical princess – has to solve everything herself – some secret magic but that . . . read more »
Coming of age in extremely difficult circumstances – this was a great story – engaging because of the wonderful main character, Leela, and the unbelievable hardship she faced – good historical references to Ghandi – . . . read more »
