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Task #20: Read a middle grade book that doesn’t take place in the U.S. or the UK
By Book Riot · 90 posts · 1679 views
By Book Riot · 90 posts · 1679 views
last updated Dec 31, 2020 02:39PM
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oh another one I forgot to review earlier! First of all, when I booktalked this in schools kids lost their MINDS about it. It's SUCH a good premise. Civil War + dinosaurs?? Hell yeah hell yeah
PLUS ALSO it does such a smart great job of integrating some pieces of Civil War history that aren't as widely taught, plus also a rad trans character! But also just a lot of fun!
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PLUS ALSO it does such a smart great job of integrating some pieces of Civil War history that aren't as widely taught, plus also a rad trans character! But also just a lot of fun!
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CW: slavery, racism, xenophobia, war-/gun-related violence and battle deaths, harm to animals
4.5 stars. This delightful book brings us Afro-Latine middle schoolers in Brooklyn who fight a kidnapping ring that sells Black children to enslavers during the Civil War, using...wait for it...dinosaurs! as their chosen "steeds." Oh, and also, the main character can sort of...mind meld? with the dinosaurs. So basically, just about everything anyone could possibly want in a book, regardless of age. I lov ...more
4.5 stars. This delightful book brings us Afro-Latine middle schoolers in Brooklyn who fight a kidnapping ring that sells Black children to enslavers during the Civil War, using...wait for it...dinosaurs! as their chosen "steeds." Oh, and also, the main character can sort of...mind meld? with the dinosaurs. So basically, just about everything anyone could possibly want in a book, regardless of age. I lov ...more
Daniel José Older is important for a lot of reasons, and two of them are the creation of brown world in a MG book and the existence of a heroic trans kid in that world. And not only is the world of the book almost without white people, when they are around they're often the villains (which is an excellent reversal of the trope that has demonize non-white people in fiction basically forever), and almost always involved in the slave trade. I admire and appreciate Older's willingness to talk about
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Full of exciting adventure and violence.
May 22, 2019
Becca
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Shelves:
childrens,
fantasy,
historical-fiction,
middle-grades,
chapter-books,
african-american,
dinosaurs,
civil-war,
action
