Race Relations/Issues Archives

Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jul 23, 2021 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller, Historical Fiction, YA

Summary: Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat. As a ghost, he observes the devastation that’s been unleashed on his family and community in the wake of what they see as an unjust and brutal killing.Soon Jerome...

Dreamland Burning by Jennifer

by Bubbly Bibbly | Mar 14, 2021 | Book Review, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Summary: When seventeen-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family’s property, she has no idea that investigating the brutal century-old murder will lead to a summer of painful discoveries about the past, the present, and herself.One hundred years earlier, a...

Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour

by Bubbly Bibbly | Feb 22, 2021 | Book Review

Summary: An unambitious twenty-two-year-old, Darren lives in a Bed-Stuy brownstone with his mother, who wants nothing more than to see him live up to his potential as the valedictorian of Bronx Science. But Darren is content working at Starbucks in the lobby of a...

King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jan 15, 2021 | Book Review, YA

Summary: Twelve-year-old Kingston James is sure his brother Khalid has turned into a dragonfly. When Khalid unexpectedly passed away, he shed what was his first skin for another to live down by the bayou in their small Louisiana town. Khalid still visits in dreams,...

The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure

by Bubbly Bibbly | Dec 2, 2020 | Book Review, Historical Fiction

Summary: Like most gentiles in Nazi-occupied Paris, architect Lucien Bernard has little empathy for the Jews. So when a wealthy industrialist offers him a large sum of money to devise secret hiding places for Jews, Lucien struggles with the choice of risking his life...