Tag: #withthefireonhigh

• Author Highlight: Elizabeth Acevedo

  So I’m back with another notable author, Elizabeth Acevedo. Originally Acevedo had wanted to be a rapper, inspired by her neighbohood and Afro-Latin heritage to rap about the abuelas who fed her pastelitos and the racism and sexism she faced. But since that was too “soft” for the rap word, she switched to spoken word…

  rachelbeerwoman

  June 28, 2022

  Book/Author Highlight

  #afrolatinx, #clapwhenyouland, #elizabethacevedo, #harpercollins, #rachelreads&reviews, #thepoetx, #withthefireonhigh, #YA

• Rachel’s Diverse Reads of 2021

  I decided last year to expand my reading from the deliciously fun backstabbing frenemy series like Gossip Girl and Beauty Queens to a group diverse YA standalone book so here are my reviews. They’re a bit short since I wrote it after I read all the books, which again was over the year, so it’s…

  rachelbeerwoman

  February 26, 2022

  Rankings, Reviews

  #adialsaid, #ajsteiger, #alisongervis, #americanpanda, #americanstreet, #angiethomas, #averylargeexpanseofsea, #brittalundin, #camp, #camryngarret, #comeonin, #concreterose, #crystalmaldonando, #cynthialeitichsmith, #diverse, #elizabethavecedo, #fatchanceCharlieVega, #felixeverafter, #fiction, #francescha, #gloriacho, #heartsunbroken, #i'llbetheone, #ibizoboi, #ifIhadyourface, #kacencallender, #leahjohnson, #levacrosen, #lgtbq, #likeothergirls, #lylalee, #magicalrealism, #misasugiura, #misfitinlove, #mitaliperkins, #nataliasylvester, #nexttimewillbedifferent, #offtherecord, #piecingmetogether, #pulp, #quietkindofthunder, #rachelreads&reviews, #realisticfiction, #reneewatson, #robintalley, #running, #saintsandmisfits, #sarabernard, #skali, #taheranmafi, #thesilencebetweenus, #todaytonighttomorrow, #topicalissues, #whenmyheartjoinsthethousands, #withthefireonhigh, #YA, #youbringthedistantnear, #youshouldseemeinacrown