![]() When we meet Amari, she and her mom are bereft about her brother’s apparent death. In both series, the girl protagonist enters a parallel world they never knew about, only to discover that their heretofore unknown abilities position them as a dire threat to that world. ![]() This naturally invites comparison to the Harry Potter series, but I feel like the Nevermoor books - which my daughter consumed just as eagerly and excitedly - are a closer match. Alston’s middle-grade debut builds a rich supernatural world that coexists next to our own. It was easy to see why she was so taken with it. She finished it quickly and eagerly talked about it not only while she was reading it but also when I was reading it after her. Third is reading it intensely, pausing to share passages with us, and bouncing herself around the room like she’s so excited by the story she can’t contain it in her small frame.Īmari and the Night Brothers handily fell into that third category. Second is reading it intensely but pausing to share passages with us. My daughter has a few different levels of being into a book. ![]()
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