A review by piakiana
Just Jaime by Terri Libenson

4.0

I recently won this book in a giveaway, (so I read it as a hard copy, and not as an ebook,) and I think that it's the perfect book for a child averaged in maybe 4th or 5th grade. It covers friendship, for the most part, and finding a group in which you feel appreciated and love yourself. The writing is fun to read, and switches back and forth between the narratives of two friends. It stretches the vocabulary of a young reader by introducing words such as "pariah", but in a context where the reader can figure out the word if they do not yet know it. It uses images to interest young readers, as well as using speech bubbles to depict dialogue. My only critique of this book would be that, sometimes, it was a bit difficult to transition POVs, because one is written in a much more "comic-book" style, while the other introduces the reader in a more traditional text-based writing. Otherwise, I really enjoyed this book, and plan on giving it to my niece who really loves books like this, but who is also starting to grow out of their reading level.