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Johnnie Christmas: Swim Team (Hardcover, 2022, HarperAlley)

Swim Team MC Book Review (RLR 520)

Swim Team by #1 New York Times bestselling author, Johnnie Christmas, is a graphic novel about a young girl who takes on a new home, new friends, and a daunting new sport. It has been the recipient of many awards, including the National Book Award Longlist, Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor, BCALA Literary Award Winner, Black-Eyed Susan Award, Maud Hart Lovelace Award, Yellowhammer Award, and Jane Addams Book Award Honor. Bree, the main character, reluctantly joins “Swim 101” after all other elective classes are full. From there, she must face her fears of the water as she also navigates new friends and some new not-so-friendly classmates. As we follow Bree on this journey, we learn about the historic segregation and oppression Black Americans faced as they fought for the right to swim in public pools and beaches and how spirit, determination, and community can be the missing puzzle-pieces to success. …

Callum Roberts, Belén Urrutia: Océano de vida (Paperback, Alianza Editorial, Alianza)

¿Océano de muerte?

Podéis leer cómodamente esta RESEÑA también aquí laquimeradegupta.tumblr.com/post/754071288490999808/oc%C3%A9ano-de-muerte

La vida está irremediablemente imbricada con el soporte físico que la cobija: el planeta Tierra. Solamente esta estrecha unión puede explicar cómo cosas (petróleo, metales y otros recursos naturales) y seres vivos (madera, pescado, etc.) se comporten ante nuestra voracidad de forma similar. En realidad lo que hay detrás es mucho más simple: I) en el caso aquellos recursos o seres vivos que son capaces de renovarse así mismos (bien completando su ciclo biogeoquímico y quedando otra vez disponibles para su uso; bien por que se reproducen y se renuevan las poblaciones), si se excede su capacidad de renovación, éstos se agotan. II) En el caso de los no renovable, simplemente su cantidad económicamente rentable se agotará en uno u otro momento. image

En esta obra Callum Roberts nos va a hablar fundamentalmente de organismos marinos y cómo hemos afectado sus ecosistemas …

reviewed The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi (Old Man's War, #2)

The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created …

Where's John Perry?

Found as EN "boxed set" and read the trilogy (with Old Man's War & The Last Colony) in less than a week (nights mainly). Less entertaining than #1 IMHO, but "needed" to jump into #3