Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly Intermediate, Middle School Greenwillow 314 pp. 3/17 978-0-06-241415-1 $16.99 g e-book ed. 978-0-06-241417-5 $9.99 Virgil Salinas is shy and bullied at school. Since he doesn’t know his multiplication tables, his nasty classmate Chet Bullens, a.k.a. “the Bull” (your standard-issue middle-school bully), repeatedly calls […]
About Sarah Hannah Gómez
Sarah Hannah Gómez holds an MA in children’s literature and an MS in library and information science from Simmons College and is working toward a PhD in children’s and adolescent literature at the University of Arizona. She blogs at shgmclicious.com.
Review of City of Saints & Thieves
April 11, 2017 by Leave a Comment
City of Saints & Thieves by Natalie C. Anderson High School Putnam 409 pp. 1/17 978-0-39954-758-4 $18.99 g After her mother was murdered in cold blood by Roland Greyhill, a white mining tycoon and the father of Tina’s half-sister Kiki, Tina made a run for it. She deposited Kiki at […]
Decolonizing Nostalgia: When Historical Fiction Betrays Readers of Color
October 25, 2016 by 6 Comments
If I look back at my childhood in the nineties, I can tie my preferences for types of play very closely to the types of books I liked to read. Beyond swimming and riding my bicycle, I was an indoor kid who, though I had plenty of friends, was happiest playing with paper dolls, Kitchen […]
Review of Freedom in Congo Square
May 7, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Freedom in Congo Square by Carole Boston Weatherford; illus. by R. Gregory Christie Primary, Intermediate Little Bee 40 pp. 1/16 978-1-4998-0103-3 $17.99 g In historic Louisiana, enslaved Africans were provided a half-day of rest each Sunday, and in New Orleans their official and legal gathering place was Congo Square. With two spare couplets for each […]
