Calling my Name by Liara Tamani

ARC, 384 pages  Release Date: October 24, 2017 Published by: Greenwillow Books Read from: October 16-22, 2017 Stand-alone Source:  TxLA  For fans of: Contemporary, Family, Diversity, Own Voices, Realistic Fiction, YA      Taja Brown lives with her parents and older brother and younger sister, in Houston, Texas. Taja has always known what the expectations of her conservative and…

Tweens Read 2017

Today I’ll be away because I’m attending Tweens Read for work! It’s held in Pasadena, Texas and it’s a great event that is totally free! This year there were 25 authors!  There’s a couple authors I want to meet, but mostly I just want to thank Celia Perez for Skpying in to our library and…

Dear Martin by Nic Stone

ARC, 208 pages  Release Date: October 17, 2017 Published by: Crown Books for Young Readers Read from: October 15, 2017 Stand-alone Source:  TxLA  For fans of: Contemporary, Family, Diversity, Own Voices, Realistic Fiction, Tear-Jerker, YA      Raw, captivating, and undeniably real, Nic Stone joins industry giants Jason Reynolds and Walter Dean Myers as she boldly tackles American race…

Take Me Away