Black Taxi is a fast and funny mystery about a teenager who inherits a choice car from her grandfather upon his incarceration. After a lifetime of petty crimes, he is found guilty of stealing...
Intriguing New Teen Novel Filled With Eccentric Characters
Eighteen-year-old return high school student, Rosie Sinclair, has always been very close to her Grandfather. So when he's thrown in jail for a crime that her irresponsible Uncle committed, and he...
The only thing Kendra Bishop wanted from her parents was for them to accept her the way she is. Kendra is just not the workaholic, marathon-obsessed, art freak like her parents. She wanted them to...
A Good Book, But I Wouldn't Be Excited To Read Any Sequels...
First of all, I'll start off saying that the book is good. The author kept me guessing enough to be intrigued, though the pacing as the answers were revealed was a bit staggered and awkward. The...
The book, The Black Tattoo, is an intersting book about two boys, Charlie and Jack who run into the leader, Nick, of a clan called the Brotherhood. Nick takes them to the headquarters and tests...
I picked this book up somewhat serendipitously, having acquired it from a friend who was discomfited by some of its views and being fascinated with all things macabre, demonic and occult in...
When I first picked this book from the library I had two minutes left to pick a book. So, I look on a shelf this was the first book I caught on my eye. When we came back to school I didn't want to...
I was really pulled in by this book and found it a page turner. It's got more than racial themes in it. It's also the story of friendship between boys, it's strengths and limits. Additionally,...
Gillian Cross is back with the second book in her Dark Ground Trilogy! Quick note to readers who have not read the first book: The Dark Ground. This review will contain spoilers for the first...
I can't tell which I like better in this book: Jerry Pinkney's beautiful watercolor illustrations, or Julius Lester's engaging prose. 'Mr. Elephant's Elegant Habiliments' is one of Lester's...
Nice Illustrations, But Doesn't Replace The Original In My Heart
My mother read the story of Little Black Sambo to me when I was just a little kid. Ofcourse I could not see any racism in it at that time. To me it was a book with vivid colors where I used my...
Little Black Sambo: New Sentiments of an Old Stereotype
This book merely re-creates the old sentiments of the antebellum and immediate postbellum discriminatory culture of American society. Sambo is not a stereotype that blacks should embrace. It is...
Gunmetal Black is definitely not a book I would normally read- it contains some graphic violence and vivid descriptions of street life. I did, however, find the story intriguing. It depicts a...
Eddie Santiago is finally released from the harsh prison life he has endured for the past ten years. His childhood friend and best buddy, Tony, picks him up from the prison in a very nice car....
I have only read what is available in the Editorial Reviews, the Customer Review, and those pages available in the "Look Inside" option. In my view it is profoundly irrational, no matter how 'feel...
This book surveys the literature and drama produced about and for children and their parents during the Harlem Renaissance, the period associated with the flowering of the arts not only in Harlem...
Awesome book. This is a story of a boy's rebirth as a man, and a journey that is at times beautiful and horrible. The writing is as deft and graceful as a thoroughbred galloping across a field. It...
"[W]e have chosen ourselves to be the chosen"??? What does that even mean? Delighted at the beginning, a little disappointed at the end, by which time the mounting deaths have become overwrought...
i had high hopes for this novel, but found it a sadly overreaching, gulag of heavy-handed writing. the plot is minimal, which can sometimes be a good thing, but here it's middling at best, with...
"They Do Not Suffer Less Because They Have No Words..."
Animal books that are told from the creature's point of view (whether cat, dog, horse, or some other species entirely) are a dime a dozen these days, but "Black Beauty," was the first book of its...
This is a terrible version with too many liberties taken by the writer. The "adaptations" make it nearly unrecognizable after reading the book. My son and I spent weeks reading the classic book...
"Quiet Storm: Voices of Young Black Poets" is an anthology of poems selected by Lydia Omolola Okutoro, who also wrote an introduction. The anthology is divided into 8 thematic sections, each of...
The poetry Okutoro selected was written by teenagers but that doesn't explain why it seems so juvenile. How did these poems get selected? Did she throw all of the submitted poems into the air and...
pretty good book. It's a little strange, but funny. Get ready to laugh your pants off though. A bit of language, but hilarious. Not recommended for younger audiences but overall, very pleasing. :)
This book of Black Beauty - adapted by Louise Colln and illustrated by Micheal Fisher doesn't actually remind me of Disney's The Country Bears starring Brad Garrett but, instead the book Black...
I was really surprised with this book. It was totally not what I expected. I was expecting some story about race or another story so boring my daughter can't wait to get away from reading...
Retelling the story of the Iliad has to be one of the most daunting challanges any children's author could ever undertake. Not only is it one of the fundamental texts of Western Literature but...
I have not yet read this book- so my review is only based on my disappointment that I bought this book after reading about the wonderful illustrations. I have a much longer version of the Iliad,...
The most famous book about the Trojan War is definitely Homer's "The Iliad". It is very interesting, but not easy to read. And it doesn't describe the Trojan War from beginning to end. This book...
My kids attended Teacher Tuesdays at our local Library this summer and one of the teachers read this book...since then my kids have been driving me crazy to find it!! Of course I can't do all the...
Hi. I have read this book and was very disappointed. On every page it was the same: 'Oh No! Were not going to make it!' and then 'Phew we made it!' I got very bored by the middle of the book...
Tanith Lee's writing is an interesting mixture of lyricism and wry humor. And the imagery stays with you long after you've read the last page. Her characterization is unique and multifaceted, and...
The worst book I ever read The Black Unicorn was the worst book I ever read. Tatith Lee was great if you like flying chairs, singing pictures, and obviously unicorns. My book I would not...
Black Unicorn is about Tanaquil who lives in her mother's desert fortress. Tanaquil is great at mending things and feels trapped in her mother's magical fortress. She yearns to leave and see the...
This whole series of books is fantastic. The reviews (usually a paragraph or so) are concise, insightful, and obviously written by people who have actually read and used the books with children....
The story told in volumes two and three of the young Green Arrow & Black Canary series, "Family Business" and "A League of Their Own," is fine. The problem with these two slim volumes is that they...
Taran, the Assistant Pig Keeper continues his adventures in the second book of the Chronicles of Prydain, "The Black Cauldron". With The Horned King now dead, Arwan relies solely on his magical...
The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander is an adventurous book that I wouldn't recommend to any age. First Taran is trying to find a counselor. They also have problems with the cauldron, it got...
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