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Blackbird Fly
Blackbird Fly
Reviewed by: Mary Lehmer - Freeport Community Library, Freeport, Southern Maine Library District
Review Date: May 2, 2015
Review
This is about Filipino girl Apple that is in 8th grade and gets put on the “dog log” list (a list of ugly girls at the middle school) and losses her 2 best friends because of it. This forces her to find other friends and take up the guitar, which she learns to play in a matter of weeks (it turns out she is a prodigy). But she has to hide her guitar playing from her mom that has forbidden it.
I liked parts of this book, but one thing that really bothered me was the fact that the boys that were making the dog log list and barking noises never got caught (the teachers had to have heard them) or reprimanded.
Overall Book Score: good
About the Book
Author:
Kelly, Erin Entrada
Illustrator: ,
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Book Type: chapter book fiction
Genre: realistic fiction
Audience: grades 4-6
Binding Type: trade edition
Binding Quality: excellent
ISBN: 9780062238610
Price: 16.99