Fresh Reads, Honest reviews, Educator-approved
Free Lunch is an unsparingly realistic, emotionally vital memoir that illuminates the lived experience of childhood poverty and domestic instability. Handled with incredible grace, wit, and hope, Rex’s voice represents countless students navigating invisible hardships.
Eric Gansworth shatters and reclaims a painful slur in Apple (Skin to the Core), a heartbreaking memoir-in-verse. Chronologically tracking his youth on the Tuscarora Nation Reservation, Gansworth confronts the dark history of government boarding schools alongside the struggles of poverty and identity.
After spending her early years in Wuhan, China, riding water buffalos and devouring stinky tofu, Laura immigrates to Texas, where her hometown is as foreign as Mars–at least until 2020, when COVID-19 makes Wuhan a household name.
A memoir that pulls back the curtain on living with crippling social fear. By throwing herself into the supportive, chaotic world of comedy classes, Alex learns to manage her internal prisons and rebuild her self-worth.
A staggering, brilliant masterpiece for adult minds. Unpacking their identity as an ogbanje (an Igbo spirit-born deity) navigating human flesh, gender transitions, and literary success, Emezi delivers a raw, breathtaking look at spiritual survival.