Tag: 4 star
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The Shadow Threat by Claudia Gray
The Shadow Threat by Claudia Gray My rating: 4 of 5 stars I really enjoyed the Shadow Threat, which takes readers into the world of Krypton as they struggle to recognize that despite all of their advancements – their homeworld is dying and they can’t do anything to save it. This is the Krypton that…
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Darius and Twig – Walter Dean Myers
Darius & Twig by Walter Dean Myers My rating: 4 of 5 stars Darius and Twig is a short contemporary novel set in Harlem. It follows two best friends, Darius and Twig, as they struggle to figure out who they are and where they want to go in life. Darius is a writer and dreams…
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New Kid – Jerry Craft
New Kid by Jerry Craft My rating: 4 of 5 stars New Kid is an incredibly accessible graphic novel that introduces us to seventh-grader Jordan and his life as the new kid in a new school. As a black kid, he experiences daily micro aggressions in his new school. He watches other kids be stereotyped…
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Stepsister – Jennifer Donnelly
Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly My rating: 4 of 5 stars Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly is a challenging book to rate, because I did not enjoy it when I first started reading but was engaged by the end. How do you rate a book that has such completely different feelings from beginning to conclusion? I honestly…
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Be Everything At Once: Tales of a Cartoonist Lady Person – Dami Lee
Be Everything at Once: Tales of a Cartoonist Lady Person by Dami Lee My rating: 4 of 5 stars Be Everything at Once is a graphic novel that collects a number of Dami Lee’s webcomics from “As Per Usual” and turns them into a humorous and relatable memoir. Dami Lee has moved between the United…
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Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed – Laurie Halse Anderson
Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed by Laurie Halse Anderson My rating: 4 of 5 stars Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed by Laurie Halse Anderson is a great coming of age graphic novel that explores who Diana is before she is truly Wonder Woman. The character and story bring a lot of humanity to a superhero that, while…
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Gotham High – Blog Tour
Gotham High by Melissa de la Cruz & Thomas PitilliPublisher: DC InkRelease Date: April 7th 2020 Genre: Young Adult, Graphic Novels, Sequential Art, Superheroes, Comics Synopsis: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Alex and Eliza and The Witches of East End comes a reimagining of Gotham for a new generation of readers. Before they became…
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Wayward Son – Rainbow Rowell
Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell My rating: 4 of 5 stars Wayward Son is the second book in the Simon Snow series by Rainbow Rowell. Although I enjoyed the first book in the series, it wasn’t as well fleshed out as I felt that it could have been because we were thrown into a fictional…
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The Guinevere Deception – Kiersten White
The Guinevere Deception by Kiersten White My rating: 4 of 5 stars I am a huge fan of Arthurian legend (in fact, I once wrote a research paper about it), so when I saw that Kiersten White was gifting the world with the Guinevere Deception I was intrigued. I’ve always loved the magic of Merlin,…
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The Girl the Sea Gave Back – Adrienne Young
The Girl the Sea Gave Back by Adrienne Young My rating: 4 of 5 stars The Girl the Sea Gave Back is the second book set in the Viking world that Adrienne Young built. I really enjoyed Sky in the Deep when I read it last year and could not wait to see what Young…
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