Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings is a lovely, lively, bi-cultural poetic memoir about a girl growing up in Los Angeles. Her mother is Cuban and her father’s family came from the Ukraine.
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One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia – Linda Book Lady’s Review :: Spoiler Free
In One Crazy Summer, three young girls travel by plane from New York City to Oakland, California to visit their mother for a month.
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The White Darkness, by Geraldine McCaughrean – Linda Book Lady’s Review :: Spoiler Free
This is my review of a novel written for teens: The White Darkness, by Geraldine McCaughrean. This is an award winning young adult novel about a girl who travels across the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica with her uncle.
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I, Juan de Pareja, by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino – Linda Book Lady’s Review :: Spoiler Free
Spanish painter, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velázquez, had a black slave, Juan de Pareja. This fictionalized account of the slave’s life follows him from birth into adulthood.
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