Book Review: The Dark Becomes Her

Young Adult Fiction by Judy I. Lin 16-year-old Ruby Chen has always been a model daughter, looking out for her younger brother and sister, getting good grades, and excelling in her piano lessons. If she’s always seen blurry visions of ghosts, she’s learned from painful experience not to tell anyone about them. But all that …

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Book review: Moko Magic, Carnival Chaos

Tracey Baptiste’s carnival tale carries all the wonder, joy, strangeness, and vibrancy of the Caribbean culture it springs from. Twelve-year-old Misty and her mom have arrived in Brooklyn from Trinidad, just before the annual carnival celebrations on Labor Day. Misty misses her home and is finding it hard to adjust to living with her cousins, …

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Book review: Six Crimson Cranes

Young Adult fiction By Elizabeth Lim Sixteen-year-old Princess Shiori has a secret. Forbidden magic runs in her veins, and if it is discovered, she’ll be exiled from Kiata, royal daughter or not. On the morning of her betrothal ceremony, she jumps out a window to avoid what she thinks will be a loveless marriage. Her …

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