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  • Review of When Aiden Became a Brother

    Written by Kyle Lukoff, and illustrated by Kaylani Juanita I have never read this book before. Ratings: Amazon: 4.8 out of 5 stars. Goodreads: 4.55 out of 5 stars. The American Library Association awarded this book the Stonewall Book Award. Summary: This story shows Aiden’s journey in gender identity and how he feels about being…

  • Review of Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag

    Written by Rob Sanders, and illustrated by Steven Salerno I have never read this book before. Ratings: Amazon: 4.9 out of 5 stars. Goodreads: 4.33 out of 5 stars. Summary: This story is about how an openly gay man becomes the first elected official in the United States and how the LGBTQ community received their…

  • Review of In Our Mothers’ House

    Written by Patricia Polacco I have never read this book before. Ratings: Amazon: 4.7 out of 5 stars. Goodreads: 4.3 out of 5 stars. Summary: This is about what it is like inside the home of a lesbian couple and their adopted children.   This book was restricted in May 2012 in Utah’s Davis County…

  • Review of Gender Queer: A Memoir

    This book was written and illustrated by Maia Kobabe. I have never read this book before. Ratings: Amazon: 4.5 out of 5 stars. Goodreads: 4.29 out of 5 stars. Summary: (copied from Amazon) In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e…

  • Review of “I am Jazz”

    This children’s book was written by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings, illustrated by Shelagh McNicholas. I have never read this book before, but I have heard about Jazz in the news and on talk shows. Ratings: Amazon: 4.7 out of 5 stars (the highest I’ve ever seen!). Goodreads: 4.12 out of 5 stars. Summary: (copied…

  • Review: “and tango makes three”

    This children’s book was written by Justin Riehardson and Peter Parnell, illustrated by Henry Cole. I have never read this book before, but I have heard about this penguin story back when it came on the news, before the book was written. (I’m not ancient, I promise!) Ratings: Amazon: 4.9 out of 5 stars (the…

  • Review of Let’s Talk about It: The Teen’s Guide to Sex, Relationships, and Being a Human.

    This graphic guidebook was written by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan Written by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan, layout assistance by Maria Frantz I have never read this book before. Ratings: Amazon: 4.2 out of 5 stars. Goodreads: 4.11 out of 5 stars. Summary: Essentially it is a graphic sex education, but it’s more than…

  • A Review of Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation

    This book was adapted by Ari Folman and illustrated by David Polonsky. To date, this book was a 2019 SEE-IT Award Finalist, 2019 EGL Award Finalist, Young Adult Nonfiction, and named Best Jewish Children’s Books – 2018. I have read an abridged version for middle school, but I have never read the graphic version before.…

  • Reasons Why We Should Not Ban or Censor Literary Works

    From the beginning of the written word, authorities would apply censorship or banning of controversial literary works like opposing political subjects, containing obscene sexual nature, and alternative lifestyles like LGBTQ+. Books were banned in the United States even before it was the United States. The first one was published in 1637, by Thomas Morton and…

  • Review of “The 1619 Project: Born on the Water”

    This book was written by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renee Watson and illustrated by Nikkolas Smith. Ms. Hannah-Jones won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary as the creator of The 1619 Project. I had not read this book prior to picking it to review. Ratings: Amazon: rated 4.9 stars out of 5. Goodreads: 4.7 stars out of…