A review by wanda12
Fighting Words by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

5.0

I selected this book to read because of how much I enjoyed reading other books by this author. “Fighting Words” is a hard book to review. It was not an easy read. This is a middle grade book. This book is about tough topics (drug use, parent in prison, sexual abuse of a minor, attempted suicide). The author does an excellent job at presenting and discussing these topics at middle grade reader level, and she makes the book easy to engage with the characters. I’m sure there are adults who want this book banned. But I think it is an important book for middle grade and young adults to read as it shows kids it is not their fault when bad things happen, and it is okay to tell adults when these things do happen.