Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender

7 reviews

kaitidid's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Outing

Moderate: Child abuse, Racism, Death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Child death, and Grief

Minor: Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Police brutality, and Toxic friendship

greenlivingaudioworm's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Outing, Police brutality, Racism, Abandonment, Death, Homophobia, Grief, Bullying, Domestic abuse, and Child abuse

nerfie's review

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Reading for my Children’s Lit class at Ithaca College

I find it crazy that this is marketed as middle grade. Such a strong, but heavy story—one that I don’t think could be told any other way, but might stress me out as a kid. I’m not sure if I would have been able to handle it while I was in the middle grade genre. Will be interesting to talk about it in class. 

Books like this are so important to the canon. It’s a good way to introduce kids to diversity and grief. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Child death, Death, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Bullying, Racism, and Violence

callmekp's review

challenging emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

This book is about the struggle of a young black boy to discover who he is and who he wants to be. It was a decent read, but I think there were a lot of storylines mixed up. I think maybe the book was trying to do too much, so it didn't do any of them in an astonishing read. I finished this in one three-hour sitting, it was easy to read, and lots of students will be engaged in the text.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Grief, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, and Homophobia

brookey8888's review

emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This was a very good middle grade about hard topics like grief, sexuality, homophobia, and racism. I thought it dealt  with all these subjects really good. I really liked king as a character, but I do wish we got to see him and his brother interact more somehow. The friendships were interesting how different they reacted and who your true friends are. I do feel like king acted a little young for twelve but maybe I just grew up to fast. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, Outing, Physical abuse, and Racism

sjanke2's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Homophobia, Outing, Physical abuse, Racism, Toxic friendship, and Violence

literatureandlace's review

emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Child abuse, and Homophobia