Review of the Day: While I Was Away by Waka T. Brown

While I Was Away
By Waka T. Brown
Quill Tree Books (an imprint of Harper Collins)
$16.99
ISBN: 9780063017115
Ages 9-12

Memory is unreliable. On some level we all know this to be true. Two people can live through the same experience and have two entirely different interpretations of what happened at the time. So when we run across memoirs written with young readers in mind, we have to take them with a grain of salt. Now I’m a bit of a nonfiction stickler when it comes to children’s books. If I se...