I Wanna Be Where You Are is an Own Voices YA novel written by Kristina Forest starring a Black ballerina, a stinky dog, a bad boy, and a road trip! Add it to your Tbr now! https://open.spotify.com/track/3mnVgyzn5HC7Sqkn3B5zHs Click here for some ambience. Summary: Seventeen-year-old Chole Peirce has big dreams of making Ballet her career, and... Continue Reading →
The Sun is Also a Star is an #ownvoices novel the author, Nicola Yoon, grew up in Jamaican and Brooklyn, and falls under the YA romance genre. This book is not a quick read, but if you're up for it, check it out. Summary: Natasha Kinsley is a Jamaican American teen about to be deported, and... Continue Reading →
This book is written in a series of vignettes by renowned slam poet Elizabeth Acevedo and follows the life of a young Dominican American girl from Harlem. The Poet X is prefect for lovers of poetry and slam poets. “I only know that learning to believe in the power of my own words has been... Continue Reading →
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