Posts tagged with: insider

My Name is Brain Brian by Jeanne Betancourt

If you’ve read my posts up to now, you’ll know how strongly I feel about what makes a book work or not. And if you’ve read my “10+ Rules” page (see the link above) and I tell you that the first chapter of this book is called “The Jokers Club” (sic) you can pretty much …read more…

Published on: 14 August 2010 by Ken

Categorized under: Book Review, Contemporary Fiction, Disabled, Intermediate Literature, Multicultural Literature, Publishing Issues • Tagged with: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Coolies by Yin

As this book opens in modern times, a young unnamed boy hears the story of his ancestors, Shek and Wong, as they came to the United States from China and worked on the railroads in California, experiencing long hours, hard work, and over racism, while at the same time managing to hold on to their …read more…

Published on: 10 August 2010 by Ken

Categorized under: Asian-American, Book Review, Early Literature, Historical Fiction, Multicultural Literature, Picture Books • Tagged with: , , , , , , , , , , ,

Hank Zipzer: Niagara Falls, Or Does It? by Henry Winkler & Lin Oliver

Hank Zipzer isn’t your average fourth-grader. He’s intelligent, creative, and incredibly likeable. Yet he does terribly at school because he’s dyslexic. Although the “d-word” doesn’t appear anywhere in this book, Hank mentions his brain and his “learning differences” enough for it to become annoying. I’m starting to feel as if I should get a rubber …read more…

Published on: 29 May 2010 by Ken

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