Book Reviews – Page 6

LS 5653 Native American Literature: Book 1

Two Roads is an excellent introductory middle grade text into Native American culture and the Indian Boarding School experience.

LS 5653 Native American Literature: Book 2

Noble Maillard’s lyrical narrative paired with Martinez-Neal’s charming illustrations create the perfect balance for this informative record of Native American experience.

LS 5653 Native American Literature: Book 3

The careful research taken to create Crossing Bok Chitto deems it an authentic Native American narrative which holds literary merit and cultural relevance even 15 years after publication.

LS 5653 Latinx Literature: Book 3

Enchanted Air adds the third side to the Cuban Missile Crisis story, or rather, the fleeting paragraph on the subject often dedicated to the island in U.S. History books.

LS 5653 Latinx Literature: Book 2

Tonatiuh sheds light at an individual that contributed to the Chicano struggle before Cesar Chavez was even born, and whose legacy remains with the ongoing civil rights organization LULAC.

LS 5653 Latinx Literature: Book 1

Acevedo’s thoughtful and captive narrative helps readers empathize with teen parents and their full spectrum of struggles.

LS 5653 Genre 2: Book 1

Craft throws humorous insight into sensitive social justice topics without bias, making this graphic novel a record of American cultural experience in the 21st century.

LS 5653 Genre 2: Book 2

We Are the Ship is a tribute to the men who endured hardships with body and spirit to fulfill their dream of getting paid to do what they loved.

LS 5653 Genre 2: Book 3

Woodson’s Before the Ever After serves as education and warning label to the young aspiring Everetts: The game is not all fame and glory.

LS 5653.20 Genre 1: Book 3

Sax is as unapologetic and direct describing the conditions of the Warsaw ghetto as German bullets were in hitting their victims. Sax seeks not to commemorate the lambs of the war, but the “wolves.”