Finding Mighty

There are so many things I loved about this book. So here's the list! 1. The diverse characters. This story built on a variety of diverse characters. Tag artists, an Indian family, a mixed-race single mother with two boys. I could keep going! What's better is that these characters were built not just......more

This book is SO SO SO good! I absolutely loved Sheela Chari's first MG mystery, Vanished, but this is even a step up from that in complexity and depth: an utterly thrilling MG suspense novel that kept me on the edge of my seat throughout (there was one point when I had to set it down for a moment an......more

The premise of a decades-long mystery and coded graffiti messages was interesting at first, but parts were confusing and hard to follow, while other parts just didn’t feel compelling. I really liked the characters of Myla and Peter, but the storytelling lost me somewhere along the way. Ages 10 and u......more

New York sixth grader and Indian American Myla (no one can pronounce her actual name) dreams of being noticed…she’s short, and doesn’t see anything remarkable in herself. Mixed-race Peter just wants to hang out with his older brother Randall since their mother is busy (when she’s not nervous about s......more

3 1/2. A really solid kids mystery. Too much parkour for me, and a few things that felt really random, but I mostly really liked it.......more