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Erin Entrada Kelly

Författare till Hello, Universe

12+ verk 3,361 medlemmar 177 recensioner 2 favoritmärkta

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Foto taget av: Author Erin Entrada Kelly at the 2018 Texas Book Festival in Austin, Texas, United States. By Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=74451275

Verk av Erin Entrada Kelly

Hello, Universe (2017) 1,600 exemplar
We Dream of Space (2020) 365 exemplar
The Land of Forgotten Girls (2016) 296 exemplar
Lalani of the Distant Sea (2019) 287 exemplar
You Go First (2018) 282 exemplar
Blackbird Fly (2015) 266 exemplar
Maybe Maybe Marisol Rainey (2021) 122 exemplar
Those Kids from Fawn Creek (2022) 94 exemplar
The First State of Being (2024) 4 exemplar

Associerade verk

You Are Here: Connecting Flights (2023) — Bidragsgivare — 66 exemplar
Calling the Moon: 16 Period Stories from BIPOC Authors (2023) — Bidragsgivare — 21 exemplar

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Allmänna fakta

Födelsedag
9/5
Kön
female
Nationalitet
USA

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another newbury winner and a deserving one at that. Goes back and forth between what is happening to a girl with cochlear implants, a japanese girl with aspirations of becoming a fortune teller, a potugese boy and his pet guinea pi and the bully that ill bring them all together. I felt a bit sorry for the bully, but thought that the other , while doing a good job of showing how he got there, didn't excuse his behavior.enjoyable read
 
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cspiwak | 77 andra recensioner | Mar 6, 2024 |
This book is about a girl and her journey of finding ones self. I think this book would be good to have for middle school aged students due to the size and reading level of the book. In addition, I think that the themes of discovering ones self are very applicable for middle school aged students, because developmentally, I feel they would be able to resonate well with the book.
 
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kaylee.dicey | 13 andra recensioner | Jan 31, 2024 |
This book would be good for middle school students. This book is "Blackbird Fly" written by Erin Entrada Kelly and published in 2015. This book is about a young girl named Apple and she is at a new school and she looks and acts very different than all of her classmates. She gets bullied and outcasted by her classmates and has to navigate her way through the tough challenges of middle school. She eventually finds out that she does not have to form to societies standards and finds her way through her music and her great friends she finds along the way. I think this book would be good for middle schoolers to relate to. Everyone in middle school is trying to fin their place in the world and even if you can't directly relate to this book, they can at least relate to feeling like an outcast in society. I would definitely have this in my fourth, fifth, or middle school classroom.… (mer)
 
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kcochell23 | 16 andra recensioner | Jan 25, 2024 |
Marisol is sure to have a terrible time when her gym teacher announces that their next unit of study is kickball. Marisol is so worried about not being able to play well that her stomach is in knots. Can her friends and families – and most importantly, herself – help her get over her fear?

This book is the second in a series about Marisol Rainey. In the first book, Marisol is worried about climbing a big tree in her backyard before finally succeeding in doing so. This book is in a similar vein with her concern now being about sports; her father and her brother are good athletes but Marisol didn’t get those genes.

Marisol’s plight here can be very relatable to young elementary school-age children (aka the intended audience of this book). For some – like me as a child – the real concern of not doing well during a team sport in which other children in your class excel is exactly relatable. For others, it might be more the general idea of having to face a fear or feeling not good enough, especially compared to others.

A side subplot is about how another classmate insists he can talk to animals and understand what they say in response, which makes Marisol wonder if she could also learn to communicate with animals, especially her own pet cat Beans.

Although this book is technically a sequel, it reads fine as a standalone story. I’m actually quite glad to have picked it up because I didn’t love the first book as much as I hoped I would, but I was pleasantly surprised to like this one much better.

The illustrations are a nice touch. They aren’t exactly necessary to tell the story, but they add in fun extra little tidbits. For example, at one point, Marisol and another classmate try to talk to their cats to test out a theory. The illustration shows the classmate having a long, breathless conversation in a dialogue bubble as her cat stands by looking perplexed.

Marisol is noted to be half Filipino-American in the text, and her best friend Jada is illustrated as Black. Other classmates may be Latinx based on naming conventions. Marisol’s father has a long-distance relationship with the family due to his work on an oil rig. Jada’s parents are divorced or were never married, as Jada splits her time between their two homes. So, the book does show a diversity of folks and lifestyles.
… (mer)
 
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sweetiegherkin | 1 annan recension | Jan 13, 2024 |

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Statistik

Verk
12
Även av
3
Medlemmar
3,361
Popularitet
#7,588
Betyg
4.0
Recensioner
177
ISBN
159
Språk
5
Favoritmärkt
2

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