Review of the Day: Patina by Jason Reynolds

Patina
By Jason Reynolds
Atheneum, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Books
$16.99
ISBN: 978-1481450188
Ages 9-12
On shelves August 29th

You cannot be a children’s librarian or an adult children’s book reviewer if you do not constantly remind yourself that you have to read outside your comfort zone on a regular basis. Our current National Ambassador of Young People’s Literature, Gene Luen Yang, put this far more eloquently when he urged people to partake in the Reading Without Walls Challen...