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After spring break and the spring storms, I’m back to share my reading with you. There are some excellent titles out there in children’s literature that I want you to add to your reading lists.
Physical Books: I read The Lion’s Run by Sara Pennypacker and The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo.
The Lion’s Run has some hype around awards possibilities and I have to say, it’s well-deserved advertising. The protagonist, orphan Lucas DuBois, wants to prove to himself and everyone else that he is brave and doesn’t deserve to be called “Petit Éclair.” Living in Nazi-occupied France in 1944 is tough for everyone, and Lucas tries to save some kittens from bullies who want to throw them off a bridge. He takes the bag of felines and hides them in a barn near Levensborn (which becomes a fascinating setting for this story). Lucas meets Alice, a girl who is hiding her filly from the Germans in the stable. As a delivery boy for a maternity home, Lucas discovers that the place is actually a birth house controlled by the Nazis. Secrets and lies lead to danger during WWII. I won’t give away more details at this time, but if you love accurate, well-researched historical fiction, this book is for you.
The Poet X won many awards back when it was published (Pura Belpré Author Award, Carnegie Medal, Walter Dean Myers Award, Michael Printz Award, as well as many selections and honors and the National Book Award). I re-read the book on the plane to spring break to get my mind and heart ready for Ms. Acevedo’s upcoming, Anger is Only a Shadow, which will publish on September 15, 2026. I cannot wait! (Do you LOVE the cover? Wow!)
Libro.fm: I’m listening to The Unlikely Tale of Chase & Finnegan by Jasmine Warga (read by Michael Crouch). I just started, so I’ll let you know what I think, but I already love everything Jasmine Warga writes, so I’m sure this one will be fabulous.
It’s Monday! What are YOU reading?
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