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An excellent and timely middle grade novel. Zoe's story has a lot of interesting angles to work from - there's her love of cooking and her summer internship at a local bakery, there's an important friendship that has hit a bump, there are the looks she gets as a black girl when she's running errands with her white step-dad and most of all there are the letters that she begins exchanging with her birth father on her 12th birthday. Especially when she hears that he was imprisoned because of a (pos
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Wow. So many new books coming out are hard-hitting and relevant to today's world, and Zoe Washington is no exception. This middle grade novel tackles systemic racism in the prison system and the Innocence Project. It's engaging, amazing and something that can teach readers about important topics of today that may not directly affect them. Somehow, even with those heavy topics, the book is balanced with friendship issues and baking challenges. Loved it.
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Jan 16, 2020
Angela
marked it as to-read
Aug 01, 2021
Ana Cob
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