Kiara's Book Tracker!
I'd love to map my progress on my reading journey! I'll track my reading here <3 Anyone can read and comment! Let me know if you've read the same books, or if you have book recommendations similar to books I'm already reading, please let me know <3
Challenge: Make your own literary logbook as well! Share your new book loves with us <3
"Standing Against the Wind"
This book is BEAUTIFUL... Such an amazing, innocent, slow burn, sacrificial love story <3 It made me miss being loved...
From Goodreads:
Patrice Williams was happy living in Georgia with her grandmother, who called her “cocoa grandbaby.” Then her mother lured her to Chicago and ended up in jail. Now Patrice lives with her Auntie Mae, and her new nickname is “Puffy” – thanks to her giant poof of hair. But Patrice’s hair isn’t the only reason she sticks out: she cares about her grades and strives for the best. That’s why Monty Freeman, another eighth grader who lives in the building, asks Patrice to tutor his little brother. Even though Monty’s friends make Patrice uneasy, Monty himself is friendly, confident, and surprisingly smart. When he becomes her guardian angel, Patrice begins to think something stronger than friendship might be growing between them. Still, nothing will stop her from applying for a scholarship at prestigious Dogwood Academy – her ticket out of the project and a school populated by gangs and drug runners.
In her debut novel, Traci L. Jones presents a girl with grit she never knew she had, and a boy so inspired by her that he begins to take pride in his own abilities.
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/206754.Standing_Against_the_Wind