pickOrbiting Jupiter, by Gary D. Schmidt (2015)
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Premise: A rural family takes in a teenager prematurely matured by a series of tragic events.
Review: I can‘t say enough about this wonderful (older middle grade) book about the grace of second chances. ⬇️
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Today, as I stand in my utopia, I have what any person could wish for—a life and the love of my son.
Stephen and I are a family.
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pickA complete 180 from the first book I read today.
This tore out my heart and shredded it! I cried so hard and so much. Just when I thought it couldn‘t get worse, it did. This poor girl went through SO much. I just wanted to hug her and hug Maggie. So much on the shoulders of a 14 year old girl. I‘m so glad she got out, and I really hope she‘s happy and healthy now.
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pickFresh & punchy YA novel about a troubled teenage white girl placed with a black foster family. Naomi is so well written, such an authentic representation of a young girl in the care system, her thoughts, reactions & language are just so realistic. Not sure I've ever read such believable teenage dialogue as features here. Great mix of tragedy/hope, vulnerability/resilience, sadness/humour, the heart-warming/the genuinely shocking.
so-so3✨ Going into this book I knew I was going to be uncomfortable. Casey is a behaviorist at a children‘s school, so all the troubled kids come to her. When she meet Kiara and learns her history there are red flags that she is slipping through the system. While there are many kids in this class dealing with more real life than they should, Kiara has a worse case scenario that literally made my jaw drop at one point. Poor kid. #Roll100 February
so-soHonestly where to begin… this book broke my heart. And as a social work student, soon to be a working clinical social worker, it broke my heart in many different ways. It‘s saddening to read about another child abuse victim who could have been saved much quicker if social services had intervened sooner. It‘s even more disheartening to read about a foster parent profiting from the misfortunes of one of her children. 3.5⭐️
“No matter how big you get, it's still okay to cry because everybody's got a right to their own tears.”
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Honestly, I have mixed emotions while reading this book. As a social work student I have found that this book brings up a lot of important points and issues about foster care and social services as well as brings up a lot of the emotional aspects of the job. With that being said I also found that there are some ethical concerns raised with this book. In a way, I feel that Glass is exploiting these children by writing about them.
Bookish Pair: Wolf Hollow, by Lauren Volk (2016). 3d