These Are Not the Words
by Amanda West Lewis
Pub Date 05 Apr 2022
House of Anansi Press Inc., Groundwood Books
Children's Fiction | Middle Grade
I am reviewing a copy of These Are Not the Words through Groundwoood Books and Netgalley:
It’s New York in the 1960’s, where we meet Missy, her Mother and Father, her Mother mother has gone back to school to pursue her dream of becoming an artist. Missy’s father works in advertising and takes Missy on secret midnight excursions to Harlem and the Village so she can share his love of jazz. The two write poems for each other poems that gradually become an exchange of apologies as Missy’s father’s alcohol and drug addiction begins to take over their lives.
After Missy’s Mother finally makes the decision that she and her daughter must make a fresh start, Missy has to leave her old apartment, her school, her best friend and her cats and become a latchkey kid while her mother gets a job. But she won’t give up on trying to save her family, even though this will involve a hard journey from innocence to action, and finally acceptance.
I give These Are Not the Words five out of five stars!
Happy Reading!
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