Neither girl was expecting to be abruptly uprooted to return to Sunbeam, so the mood in the car is decidedly cranky. Each of these stories has a measure of sadness based on the end-of-life issues the characters are dealing with.Īs Keller’s story begins, Lily’s mother is taking her and her sister Sam from their home in California to Sunbeam, Washington, where they had lived with Halmoni for three years after Dad died. Merci’s Cuban-American grandfather, Lolo, has Alzheimer’s disease Lily’s Korean grandmother, Halmoni, has cancer. This middle grade story is similar to the 2019 Newbery winner, Merci Suárez Changes Gears, in that both books feature an ailing and dying grandparent. from their own perspective.” 3 Keller’s character Lily, the protagonist in this year’s Newbery winner, is, like Keller, Korean American. Keller is an Own Voices author, which is “an author from a. When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller is the recipient of the 2021 ALA Newbery Award 1 as well as the APALA Asian/Pacific American Award for Children’s Literature. (Note: It is not the purpose of this review to draw conclusions for the reader but rather to focus on literary elements and topics of importance for the Christian audience.)
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