I read this on the Webtoon app and God, this is such a great and honest look at two boys falling in love and their complexities. I also love the eating disorder representation as it's not traditional and there's a stigma around boys & men having EDs. Charlie is such a great character and Nick is so sweet! I also love seeing a trans girl falling in love. 

A slice of life, coming-of-age graphic novel about Black, Brown, Asian, & Hawaiian girls existing in their 9th-grade year of high school. The girls all bond through basketball and learning the game together. There are great conversations in this, especially about girl's sports teams not being seen as important as opposed to boy's teams. The illustrations were beautiful and intricate!

However, the cast of characters was very large and I tended to get confused at times trying to keep up with the large cast. 

I really enjoyed this one!

What a spectacular graphic novel told through fairy tales about  immigrants, language, and a 13 year old boy trying to come out to his mother but there's a language barrier. I looooved how Trung Le Nguyen used different colors to distinguish from past (yellow) & present (red) and the fairytales (purple).

I thought this was a good middle grade that teaches children about American politics and also emphasizes the importance of representation specifically having a Black and Latinx president, First Lady, and children in the White House. The children even say in dialogue how George Washington would hate having them there. This book had great conversations and some fun mischief between the two families: Zora & Skylar and Winnie and Ingrid. However, I wasn't very invested in this story and it didn't make me want to keep picking it up to see what happens next because the plot slows down a bit. But, I would recommend this to children 12 and up!

Really loved this poetry collection. It got better toward the middle. My favorite poems were 
Notebook Fragments, Immigrant Haibun, Thanksgiving 2006, Headfirst, In Newport, Because It's Summer, Self Portrait as Exit Wounds, and Headfirst.

A fantastic graphic novel about Omar's life in a refugee camp in Kenya. His brother is nonverbal and is prone to seizures. I learned a lot about Omar's life and I loved the author's note at the end from Omar providing resources. Lancaster, PA is close to me and I'll be checking out those resources. Highly recommend! 

Phenomenal. 

Favorite Quotes
"A memory is too powerful a weapon"
"Being from the future meant very little when my education on the past was so limited"

A must read!!!