Feature – Elena Reads and Reviews

Review: Award-Winning Sugar Explores Girl’s Life After Slavery

For 10-year-old Sugar, freedom isn’t what she expected it to be. She happens to live on a sugar plantation and,

The picture above is of my dad and me, at the zoo, one of our favorite places to go together.

I was doing research for a school project and I learned that Madam C.J. Walker’s great-great granddaughter is a journalist

Do you know who was America’s first self-made female millionaire? I didn’t know until I read a few books about

Note from Elena Reads: My friend Caleb, age 10, is today’s guest blogger. I’ve read the book he’s reviewing and

I met author Saadia Faruqi when she came to speak at my local library. She is a strong woman who

Yasmin is an adventurous girl who wants to be everything. From a fashionista to an architect, she is up for anything,