A review by missrosymaplemoth
Drita, My Homegirl by Jenny Lombard

4.0

Heartwarming story for middle graders that stays relevant today. This book was short and sweet. I liked that Drita’s first person POV was written in English and was broken at times; it made her character more real. The end made me emotional.

Different fonts for the different POVs was a nice touch seeing as I have read books before where I was hard to differentiate the voices. I thought the ramifications of fleeing from a war torn country for Drita’s family was handled appropriately. Some scenes seemed to be paced oddly, but it wasn’t too distracting.

Gripe: This is a lesson to white authors trying to write AAVE to just not, or at least do research, because I was not surprised to find that the author was a white woman from the way Maxie, the book’s other POV character and a young Black girl, spoke and thought in her inner monologues.

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