![]() ![]() Miller, shows her class a TED Talk by Melati and Isabel Wijsen. ![]() Where does she fit in in this shell-covered paradise without Lee? Mimi is taken by the beauty of the island and alarmed by the plastic pollution she sees on the beaches. The Laskarises’ relocation to Wilford Island, Florida, is a big key change for Mimi. But all that changes when her family’s Greek restaurant falls on hard times. ![]() Mimi has a plan for her seventh grade year: play piano in the Young Artists competition at Carnegie Hall with her best friend, Lee enjoy a good old Massachusetts snow day or two and work in her community garden plot with her dad. With a foreword by Melati Wijsen, cofounder of Bye, Bye Plastic Bags. Written in accessible verse, this timely story of environmental activism has extensive back matter for aspiring activists. Twelve-year-old Mimi Laskaris is inspired by the Wijsen sisters of Bali to turn her focus from classical piano to a new obsession: forming a grassroots, kid-led movement to ban plastic bags in her new island home in Florida. Genres: Contemporary, Middle Grade, Verse Published by Clarion Books on March 8, 2022 So instead I’m writing “tiny bite” reviews-I hope these will be enough to feed your fiction addiction! I don’t think I’d get around to writing a true review (even a bite-sized one) for any of these, but I want to give them a mention, since they deserve it. ![]() Today, I’m reviewing a few books I read just for fun. ![]()
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