I also found it interesting to see their intercultural misunderstandings: "She asks if I can pick her up from the airport.

Yahaira Rios, a Dominican American New York girl, a former star chess player who carries the secret that knocked her father off the pedestal she had built for him, also loses a father on that flight.Crisp verse depicts heartbreak and bravery, while expert pacing culminates in a lyrical achievement in storytelling that is highly recommended. Just send a semi-regular round up of reviews, things we find interesting, and Shannon’s beauty recommendations.

Elizabeth Acevedo is the New York Times bestselling and 2019 Carnegie Medal winning author of THE POET X. A plane headed from New York to the Dominican Republic crashes into the ocean, and there are no survivors. You'll find lots of reviews talking about that as if it is a lack rather than something you are signing up for. And now gone and it's just the two daughters, hunting in the rubble of his life for answers, trying to find their way to each other across the many distances that divide their two worlds. homeIt was beautiful to witness the girls getting closer once Yahaira actually landed in the DR for the funeral.

Through Carline, Acevedo doesn't just address the topic of teen pregnancy but also the discrimination that Haitian people face in the DR. Within five pages, I was completely engrossed in the structure and I really didn’t even notice beyond being wowed by the author’s extreme talent. The situations they have to face are frightening and upsetting but they have to face them no matter if they want to or not and in the end both girls come out of it stronger.