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2025 MCBD Book Reviews
This year I was gifted two books for MCBD.
The first one was Dragon Surf from author D.G. Driver and Jeni Bautista. It is a 205 page middle grade novel about Eric Long, a 15 year old Chinese American boy growing up in Southern California coastal city's beach and surf culture. The boy is annoyed by his mother's obsession with Chinese dragons as she made a career of painting them. He admires his dad, though, who is a competitive professional surfer. He was excited to go with his father to northern California for summer surfing competitions.
Through the eyes of Eric, we also get to hang around, learn about surfing, and make new friends. At first the boy is a skeptic but he started seeing things while getting into trouble in coastal waters and gets rescued by something. This is a fun read that touches upon Chinese mythology and history as part of the immigration movement into California during the 1800s.
I can understand Eric's attitude towards his mom. It comes from wanting to
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Safe Passage review for 2024 MCBD
I was gifted an advanced reader copy of Safe Passage from publisher Lee & Low Books. It is a 224 page 8.9 x 6.5 graphic novel written by G. Neri and illustrated by David Brame for young adult readers from 5th grade on up to 12th grade. This book will soon be available everywhere books are sold in March, so please be on the look out for it!
The story is about teenage boy Darius living in today's South Side of Chicago with his stepdad and stepsister, Cissy. The stepdad, a war veteran who served in Irag, struggles to find a job so everyone is uncertain about being able to stay in their house in a not so great neighborhood. Even though money is tight, the father makes sure Darius knows he has a family that loves and looks out for him.
The kids have to walk several blocks through dozens of different gang territories to get to school, so their father walks them to school teaching them survival skills he learned as a soldier. He leaves them safe at school with Darius in charge of his
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