Tag: diverse reads

  • Children of Blood and Bone – Tomi Adeyemi

    Children of Blood and Bone – Tomi Adeyemi

    Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi My rating: 4.5 of 5 stars Children of Blood and Bone is a fantastic debut novel by author Tomi Adeyemi. She was inspired to write this book by West African mythology as well as the black-lives matter movement. Although that sounds like an unwieldy premise, I feel…

  • Amina’s Voice – Hena Khan

    Amina’s Voice – Hena Khan

    Amina’s Voice by Hena Khan My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars Amina’s Voice is a powerful middle-grade novel that I believe is so important for young readers to experience. Amina is a Pakistani-American, so we are given a wonderfully diverse, young voice to understand her world and it is so important in the current world…