Best for: Young readers (8 or 9 and up); adults who want to know what their nieces and nephews are reading. In a nutshell: Amal, a young girl living in Pakistan, talks back to the wrong man and is forced to go work in his home as a maid to his mother. Worth quoting: “Until now, I didn’t realize how memories clumped together. Remembering one unlocked another and then another until you were drowning in a tidal wave threatening to sweep you away.” Why I […]