Harbor Me
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4.4 • 63 Ratings
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
Jacqueline Woodson's first middle-grade novel since National Book Award winner Brown Girl Dreaming celebrates the healing that can occur when a group of students share their stories.
It all starts when six kids have to meet for a weekly chat--by themselves, with no adults to listen in. There, in the room they soon dub the ARTT Room (short for "A Room to Talk"), they discover it's safe to talk about what's bothering them--everything from Esteban's father's deportation and Haley's father's incarceration to Amari's fears of racial profiling and Ashton's adjustment to his changing family fortunes. When the six are together, they can express the feelings and fears they have to hide from the rest of the world. And together, they can grow braver and more ready for the rest of their lives.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
YA superstar Jacqueline Woodson dedicates her beautiful, fast-read novel to “all the people who helped me write during a crazy time in our country.” We’d like to +1 that sentiment. Her story of six pre-teens who come together to share dramatic developments in their home lives and their most frightening, covered-up emotions made our heart swell. We loved every one of Goodson’s sixth-grade characters. Their stories humanize issues like immigration and racism—the stuff of explosive headlines these days—and cement our hope that young people are our hope.
Customer Reviews
Great
I love this book and I don’t really like to read the fact that I could read this book all day says a lot about a book if your in 6-8th grade and you have to read something but there’s nothing you like try this book it’s really good!!!
Harbor Me
Must Read!
A bit odd
The first half of the book was brilliant. Slow but brilliant. The next half made no sense AT ALL. It was good and all, but not great.