Today’s review comes again from one of our prolific Middle Grade Fiction panelists and bloggers, Brenda, who blogs at Log Cabin Library. Of Middle Grade Fiction finalist Abby Spencer Goes to Bollywood, by Varsha Bajaj. She writes:
Through Abby the reader is able to experience traveling to a new country and a new culture. I had the pleasure of living in Egypt for a number of years and couldn’t help noticing the similarities between Bajaj’s descriptions of Mumbai and my time in Egypt. India and Egypt share a huge distinction between the wealthy and poor, and Bajaj’s descriptions of Mumbai were reflective of my own experiences of the extreme contradictions I noticed while traveling around Egypt.
Read the rest of the review here.