Blackbird Fly

Reviewed by: Mary Lehmer - Freeport Community Library, Freeport, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: May 2, 2015

Review

This is about Filipino girl Apple that is in 8th grade and gets put on the “dog log” list (a list of ugly girls at the middle school) and losses her 2 best friends because of it. This forces her to find other friends and take up the guitar, which she learns to play in a matter of weeks (it turns out she is a prodigy). But she has to hide her guitar playing from her mom that has forbidden it.

I liked parts of this book, but one thing that really bothered me was the fact that the boys that were making the dog log list and barking noises never got caught (the teachers had to have heard them) or reprimanded.

Overall Book Score: good