Kindle Deals: July 5.

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Book cover: I Remember Abbu, by Humayun Azad

Book cover: I Remember Abbu, by Humayun Azad

Book cover: Ghosting, by Edith Pattou

Book cover: Ghosting, by Edith Pattou

Some realistic YA today:

  • Piecing Me Together, by Renée Watson. This one is OUTSTANDING; I read it years ago when it came out, and it’s still with me. Winner of the Coretta Scott King award and a Newbery Honor.

  • I Remember Abbu, by Humayun Azad. Growing up, and the relationship between a father and daughter, during the Bangladesh Liberation War in the early 1970s. Translated from the Bengali.

  • Ghosting, by Edith Pattou. Verse novel about eight teens, a summer night, and a prank that goes very, very wrong.