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Fiction, Middle Grade Fiction, Young Adult Nonfiction

Three Books about American Slavery: All Different Kinds of Free, To Be a Slave, and Chains

Three books I ended up reading during the 48-hour Book Challenge were about slavery, plus I’m still in the middle of Gone with the Wind, which provides a quite different perspective on the institution. I really enjoyed the topical reading, because it’s giving me a more holistic view of slavery in different eras through different

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Nonfiction Picture Books

Listen to the Wind by Greg Mortenson and Susan L. Roth

I can finally recommend something related to the Three Cups of Tea story. Remember how I hated listening to the audiobook of Three Cups of Tea, which felt like a journalistic report despite being called a memoir? My mother loved Three Cups of Tea and thought it was wonderful, so I enlisted her help in

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Biography/Memoir, Nonfiction

Three Cups of Tea: Counterpoints (Guest Post)

I disliked Three Cups of Tea; my mother loved it. Read our counterpoints. Hated It By Rebecca Reid of Rebecca Reads I heartily disliked listening to the 800+ minute audiobook of Three Cups of Tea by David Oliver Relin. To begin with, I disliked the horrible writing, which was full of extraneous details and parenthetical

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