Review of the Day: I Can Make This Promise by Christine Day

I Can Make This PromiseBy Christine DayHarper (an imprint of Harper Collins)$16.99ISBN: 978-0-06-287199-2Ages 9-12On shelves October 1st

Middle grade literature can too often become heavily reliant on a number of well-worn tropes. For example, this year (2019) we’ve been seeing a slew of books where the mom is dead and the daughter has to essentially care for her grief-stricken father. But this literature isn’t just limited to dead moms. Grief is weighing down the protagonists of 2019 like a...