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Melleby, N. (2019) Hurricane Season. Chapel Hill, NC. Algonquin Books. 

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Melleby, N. (2019) Hurricane Season. Chapel Hill, NC. Algonquin Books. 

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Hurricane Season as a piece of Realistic Fiction

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Hurricane Season as a piece of Realistic Fiction

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In order to be seen as Realistic Fiction, a few requirements need to be met.
1.) Does the book portray realities of life for today's children?

The book shows a young girl, Fig, trying to find her place in the world. She has to learn how to grow up rather quickly as her father grows ill. I think many children may have to play the role of the adult in there family, whether its for themselves, or a younger sibling.

2.) Are the characters convincing and credible to today's child?

Fig is very convincing as the main character of the story. She goes on to be an average 6th grade girl, dealing with her own problems, yet the problems of others as well.

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This novel begins at the start of hurricane season that has 6th grader Fig quite worried, but little does she know, hurricanes will be the least of her concerns in a few weeks. Fig is a smart girl, very into math and science, and she also finds herself in her middle school taking an art class. She is very close with her dad, and soon enough he gets confused and doesn't remember who she is. Fig is then forced into becoming the adult of the family where she tends to her father, and turns to art to help her figure out what is going on with him.

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Hurricane Season is written by Nicole Melleby in 2019, and is a piece of realistic fiction. This novel has been nominated for a few awards including the Lambda Award, and was the winner of the Skipping Stones Award in 2019.

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Parker Rhodes, J. (2019) Ghost Boys. NYC, NY. Little Brown Books for Young Readers.

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Parker Rhodes, J. (2019) Ghost Boys. NYC, NY. Little Brown Books for Young Readers.

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Ghost Boys as a piece of Historical Fiction

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Ghost Boys as a piece of Historical Fiction

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In order to be seen as Historical Fiction, a few requirements need to be met.
1.) Is the story as accurate and authentic as possible?

The story is very accurate as to what we see in today's world. I think the element of using ghosts to come back and see life when they are not around is very interesting, and having a character from today's world along with another character from a different time period makes the story very realistic.

2.) Does the story accurately reflect the values and norms of the culture depicted?

The ideas in the novel, such as racism, police violence/brutality, etc. are seen throughout, and the family losing their son from this situation is grieving and doing everything they can to get justice for him. This is also something we see today.

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The novel begins with 12 year old boy Jerome, being shot by police officers after they suspect his toy gun to be a real fire arm. He comes back as a ghost where he sees the world from another perspective and is confused as to all the police brutality going on in today's society. He also meets another ghost from another time period name Emmett Till who has experienced the same sort of thing as him. They view and see the world in different ways as Jerome's family is coping with his death, and also meet the police officers daughter, who is struggling with her fathers actions.

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Ghost Boys in a young readers Historical Fiction Novel that was written in 2019 by Jewell Parker Rhodes. Ghost Boys was also nominated for multiple awards for the year of 2020-2021, including the Golden Kite Award and the Hoozier Award.