Book Tour Spotlight: Freewater by Amina Luqman-Dawson

February 6, 2022.Reading time 6 minutes.

Freewater by Amina Luqman-Dawson Release Date: February 1st, 2022 Publisher: Little, Brown for Young Readers Genre: Middle Grade, Historical Fiction Pages: 416 Goodreads | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Book Depository | Indigo | IndieBound Synopsis Debut author Amina Luqman Dawson pens a lyrical, accessible historical middle-grade novel about two enslaved children’s escape from […]

Book Tour: So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix by Bethany C. Morrow

September 11, 2021.Reading time 10 minutes.

Synopsis Four young Black sisters come of age during the American Civil War in So Many Beginnings, a warm and powerful YA remix of the classic novel Little Women by national bestselling author Bethany C. Morrow. North Carolina, 1863. As the American Civil War rages on, the Freedmen’s Colony of Roanoke Island is blossoming, a […]

Book Tour: Shanghaied by David Paul Collins

December 18, 2020.Reading time 8 minutes.

Synopsis When Jack Sligo runs away from his loving Boston-Irish family, he hopes to get a summer job on a cruise ship. His dream becomes a nightmare when he meets two strangers who give him mysterious drinks in a waterfront saloon. Jack wakes up, far at sea, shanghaied aboard the African freighter, SS Iron Prince. […]

Book Tour: The Tigers In The Tower by Julia Golding

November 20, 2020.Reading time 10 minutes.

Synopsis “A Little Princess – with tigers! Orphan and outcast Sahira Clive is a brave and plucky heroine with a brightly burning heart. I was rooting for her all the way to the end of this thrilling – and thought-provoking – adventure.”Ally Sherrick, award-winning author of Black Powder Sahira’s family are travelling to England to […]

E-ARC Review: Traitor by Amanda McCrina

August 30, 2020.Reading time 8 minutes.

Synopsis Poland, 1944. After the Soviet liberation of Lwów from Germany, the city remains a battleground between resistance fighters and insurgent armies, its loyalties torn between Poland and Ukraine. Seventeen-year-old Tolya Korolenko is half Ukrainian, half Polish, and he joined the Soviet Red Army to keep himself alive and fed. When he not-quite-accidentally shoots his unit’s […]