by WeldonNgetich | May 5, 2023 | archive book reviews, book reviews
Secret ballrooms, hidden artwork and unlikely friends—welcome to the Regency. The city plans to demolish it. Jake feels powerless. And then he’s summoned to apartment 713, an apartment he has been told is off-limits. When he opens the door… he travels to the...
by WeldonNgetich | May 5, 2023 | archive book reviews, book reviews
Miles Morales is still just your average teenager. He has unexpectedly become totally obsessed with poetry and can never seem to do much more than babble around his crush. Nothing too weird. Oh! Except, just yesterday, he used his spidey superpowers to save the world...
by WeldonNgetich | May 5, 2023 | archive book reviews, book reviews
It’s the summer before senior year, and Manny has just moved from Texas to the Bronx in New York City. Instead of hanging with friends and making spending money, Manny is forced to do menial tasks in his new home, a luxury condo his stepdad is managing, while...
by WeldonNgetich | May 5, 2023 | archive book reviews, book reviews
In the Remixed Classics series, authors from marginalized backgrounds reinterpret classic works through their own cultural lens to subvert the overwhelming cishet, white and male canon. This gothic young-adult remix of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde subverts the cishet...
by WeldonNgetich | Apr 7, 2023 | archive book reviews, book reviews
Thirteen-year-old Billy Knight leaves home to “ride the rails” across Canada during the 1930s. His encounters with a wide cast of characters — including fellow drifters and grifters, kid gangs, crooks, idealists, ragtag philosophers and railroad bulls as well as...
by WeldonNgetich | Apr 7, 2023 | archive book reviews, book reviews
This honest, engrossing graphic memoir tells the story of professional athlete and activist Akim Aliu’s incredible life as a hockey prodigy in Canada. Akim Aliu — also known as “Dreamer” — is a Ukrainian-Nigerian-Canadian professional hockey player whose...
