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A review by readingwitherin
Malcolm and Me by Robin Farmer
5.0
Thank you to SparkPress for the free copy in exchange for my honest review.
My Rating: 4.5 stars
Malcolm and Me is about 13-year-old Roberta Frost is a young girl learning about the differences in life and how things aren't always as they've seemed to be.
Roberta starts reading Malcolm X's book and realizes the little differences in her school life with how the nuns at her school treat the Black kids compared to the white kids. We see Roberta go head to head a lot with one nun who singles her out a lot, and we see Roberta find different ways to deal with this as time goes on. Sometimes it goes better than others, but at the end of the day, Roberta and her fellow students do learn from these arguments and some of them even start to see things differently. This struggle she has with the nun is one that covers multiple different subjects and is one that lasts all school year because of what it was over.
We also get to see Roberta's home life where things used to be so good in her mind and, then suddenly, things start coming to light that changes her world. We see her struggle with all of this throughout the book and feeling understandably angry about what is happening as well as being confused because she doesn't know the full story. I will say this when it came to her family and home life it feels really real, her parents were involved, and her and her had a realistic sibling relationship.
Overall I loved this book. Getting to see an older middle-grade book that was fun and had sad moments but was also very realistic was a nice change for me from what I've been reading these past few months. Roberta is a character I really liked, she was loveable and I always understood where she was coming from because of how she was written, while also understanding why she wasn't able to know things that her parents were dealing with. That is going to make Malcolm and Me a good book for all ages from middle-grade through adult because of how it shows and connects the importance of seeing things from multiple perspectives and realizing that everything isn't black and white. The pacing of this book was very fast as well and once I started reading it I couldn't put it down. I can't wait to see what the author writes next, and I wish her all the success in the world.
My Rating: 4.5 stars
Malcolm and Me is about 13-year-old Roberta Frost is a young girl learning about the differences in life and how things aren't always as they've seemed to be.
Roberta starts reading Malcolm X's book and realizes the little differences in her school life with how the nuns at her school treat the Black kids compared to the white kids. We see Roberta go head to head a lot with one nun who singles her out a lot, and we see Roberta find different ways to deal with this as time goes on. Sometimes it goes better than others, but at the end of the day, Roberta and her fellow students do learn from these arguments and some of them even start to see things differently. This struggle she has with the nun is one that covers multiple different subjects and is one that lasts all school year because of what it was over.
We also get to see Roberta's home life where things used to be so good in her mind and, then suddenly, things start coming to light that changes her world. We see her struggle with all of this throughout the book and feeling understandably angry about what is happening as well as being confused because she doesn't know the full story. I will say this when it came to her family and home life it feels really real, her parents were involved, and her and her had a realistic sibling relationship.
Overall I loved this book. Getting to see an older middle-grade book that was fun and had sad moments but was also very realistic was a nice change for me from what I've been reading these past few months. Roberta is a character I really liked, she was loveable and I always understood where she was coming from because of how she was written, while also understanding why she wasn't able to know things that her parents were dealing with. That is going to make Malcolm and Me a good book for all ages from middle-grade through adult because of how it shows and connects the importance of seeing things from multiple perspectives and realizing that everything isn't black and white. The pacing of this book was very fast as well and once I started reading it I couldn't put it down. I can't wait to see what the author writes next, and I wish her all the success in the world.