Catching Up

I have read a lot of books lately and not posted on any of them. Here's an attempt to get a big more caught up. Hopefully more later.

Peace, Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson
This is a sequel to the book Locomotion which I haven't read although I will search it out now that I've read this one. Told in letters by Lonnie Collins Motion, or Locomotion, to his little sister this is a story about living in a loving foster care home (how refreshing!). In the few months covered in the book, Locomotion writes about friendship, missing his dead parents, missing his sister, wanting to be a poet and how his teacher's perception of this affects his school work, and quite movingly about the foster family's oldest brother returning from the Iraq war after being injured. A beautiful cry for peace in our world.

Books it made me think of:
Love That Dog and Hate That Cat by Sharon Creech
Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff (although Peace Locomotion is for a younger audience)
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis