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This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality
By: Jo Ann Allen Boyce & Debbie Levy
This book is about a girl in 1956, named Jo Ann Allen and her struggles with racism and fight for school equality. I like this book because it is written very different from any other book I have ever read before. It is made up of poems, titles of articles, and newspapers. Also, this book really lays out how bad dark-skinned people were treated back then, and didn’t sugar-coat anything, which I really like. Overall, I found this book very interesting and nice to read, I would definitely recommend this book.-Jessie
Poet X
By: Elizabeth Acevedo
I really enjoyed this book! It's about a girl named Xiomara that keeps her mind off of family tension by writing poetry about. For the girls, you can relate to this book in more ways than one, Xiomara expresses her experience of unwanted attention, sexism, and learns to see her value. Not only that, but this book shows a good representation of women of color. This will take you on an emotional roller coaster because of how passionate and deep her words are. I've heard it also sounds really good in audio book form and that you'll just eat it up. Also, this book I think should be read by mature middle school and high school because there are some things that are inappropriate for a younger audience. I'd never think I would be interested in reading poetry until this book!-Lena
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