A review by crystal_reading
Milagros: Girl from Away by Meg Medina

4.0

Milagros is a captivating main character. She is herself every moment and is learning about herself as she struggles through hardship and separation from everything she knows. I am coming around as a fan of magical realism. I have been a reader who likes realism and fantasy to stay in their boxes, but I think that is because that was what I grew up reading - straight fantasy and straight realism for the most part. There are several authors who are winning me over though - Guadalupe Garcia McCall, Meg Medina and Laurel Snyder to name a few. The magic adds a beauty to the story and it makes me ask why not? Why should stories have to be in tidy little boxes following rules?