Blackbird Fly
Nominated by: bevpdx
Finalist blurb: Middle school ain't easy. Just ask Apple Yengko, who learns that it's hard being different in a sea full of many who are the same.
She just wants to be a rock star and play her heart out but with her traditional Filipina mother wanting Apple to make her sole focus on school, let's just say becoming the next George Harrison isn't on her to-do list.
Apple's story is one readers will relate to, sympathetize with and root for as it unveils the ugly side of school bullying but in a thought provoking way. You will not walk away from this book without feeling something, learning something and for that I'd recommend it to not only it's intended audience but for younger and older book enthusiasts alike.
Apple's story is one readers will relate to, sympathetize with and root for as it unveils the ugly side of school bullying but in a thought provoking way. You will not walk away from this book without feeling something, learning something and for that I'd recommend it to not only it's intended audience but for younger and older book enthusiasts alike.
— Libertad Araceli Thomas, Twinja Book Reviews