Released under the "We Need Diverse Books" imprint, and it does an excellent job proving once again why that statement could not be more urgently true. Many of these stories were about coming of age, starting to take on more mature responsibilities while at the same time coming to terms with a more mature, less rosy-colored understanding of the world. All of the stories dealt with differing cultural perspectives, cross-cultural cooperation/meetings/misunderstandings and what it's like to have to...

4,5 stars.I loved all the stories except one...I just couldn’t finish “Choctaw Bigfoor, Midnight in the Mountains” 😅

review also posted on Wordpress! spoiler-free review!Flying Lessons and Other Stories is probably the first anthology I have ever read. As expected, I wanted more from each story, but I enjoyed them all nonetheless! This anthology features diverse stories written by diverse authors and I plan to read more books by them. It definitely focusses on diversity of ethnicity and race, which is great. But diversity also means LGBTQIAP+, mental health... representation and there wasn't enough of that.I a...

I will probably not review this one at length, I read it because I wanted to relax with fun middle grade stories and loved the lineup. It did not go as well as I thought it would. So just some brief points.I did not want to see in an explicitly diversity-themed book:* using fatness as a shorthand for bad character traits* the existence of non-Christians spoiling the fun about Christmas, as now school holiday celebrations need to be secular (multi-page scene about this)* the boy forcing the girl

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This was a cute anthology. I didn't do much research before listening to this on audio, so I didn't realize it was middle grade. I don't personally enjoy MG, but I think that it's such an important collection of diverse stories for younger readers. There were so many characters from different backgrounds, ethnicities, sexualities, and disabilities. There was a different narrator for each story in the audiobook and I think that added a lot. My favorite story was The Difficult Path by Grace Lin. I...

Had the pleasure of interviewing the editor, Ellen Oh, about this great new collection of stories for kids. To watch, go to The Washington Post Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/roncharles/p...

4.5 stars. One of the things that initially got me into reading as a youngster was the ability that books had to let me see through new eyes and walk that proverbial mile in someone else's shoes. I think it is so important for everyone but for children and teenagers to have access to a wide variety of books that reflect all different walks of life and experience. That is just one reason that I am such a big supporter of the "We Need Diverse Books" movement. It's an important step forward for the...

Fabulous anthology with a mix of genres and perspectives represented. A must-have for middle school and high school classrooms and libraries.

I think that no matter what my rating of this book is, that this is an important read, especially for kidlit. I think it's awesome to see more diverse stories (whether that's based off ethnicity, religion, disability, sexuality, race, etc.) targeted at smaller kids. I think that's amazing because when I was a young child looking for books, I never saw books like this. The industry has come a long way and still has a lot of work to do from here.How to Transform an Everyday, Ordinary Hoop Court nt...

It's hard to find a good short story book. They aren't put out as much as they used to be. I was was delighted to find this book and will be eager to share it with readers in the future. I liked each of the stories. Some more than others. Kwame Alexander's story stole the show for me. Samantha Quan was also a strong contender. Those stories I wanted to go and on. I think it could have been edited better. The flow of the book was off putting in parts.

I may consider going through and rating each story but they were all so good! I really enjoyed these!

I feel like anthologies are so hard to rate, because there are stories you'll love and stories that you'll feel iffy about and that was the case for me and this book. It was nice to be able to read from authors I've never read before and see what their writing styles were like. I also love that this book is full of diverse stories, which is something that we still need more of.

A must read for everyone! Kids, maybe, grade 5+. Many voices represented here. Hope to read more from We Need Diverse Books-maybe even stories for much younger readers?

This is a book that must be read-by parents, students, teachers...Having taught in a myriad of teaching environments, I can assure that students who look in the mirror as they turn the pages of Flying Lessons and Other Stories AS WELL AS (or perhaps, ESPECIALLY) the students who DO NOT reflect the characters in the pages of the short stories. For, as Walter Dean Myers said in his eloquent essay more than twenty-five years ago, "If we continue to make black children nonpersons by excluding them f...

I would give some of these stories 5 stars. Others, I would give 4. One or two, I might give 3 stars, but that is mostly because they just don't fit my personal taste in style and subject.There are 10 stories by 10 diverse authors in this collection, and by and large, it's excellent. I learned of this book by following We Need Diverse Books. This title is our school's "All Middle School Read" this summer. The entire middle school: students and faculty will read the book, and then we will do some...

Whether it is basketball dreams, family fiascos, first crushes, or new neighborhoods, this bold anthology—written by the best children’s authors—celebrates the uniqueness and universality in all of us. Flying Lessons & Other Stories includes a variety of characters — from different backgrounds, disabilities, ethnicities, sexualities. And so here's a look of some of my favorite short stories featured in here: Sol Painting, Inc. by Meg Medina Twelve-year-old Merci Suarez is helping her father ou...

Flying Lessons and Other Stories by Ellen OhFlying Lessons and Other Stories are a solid anthology. I love the recurring theme of the short stories which is the lessons you can glean after reading each one. All of the stories feature those kids who are usually unseen. The underprivileged, the weird, the outcast, the brown, and black kids. It’s a necessary mirror for all ages, particularly for middle grade readers. I can’t recommend it enough.Since, this is a collection of short stories I’ll rate...

I loved Flying Lessons and Other Stories. This book was the perfect book to start off 2017 - it filled me with so much joy, reminded me of the ups and downs of youth, and filled me with so much hope -- hope, because kids with marginalized identities may read this book and find themselves in the stories' characters. And I cannot emphasize how important this is - and consequently how this makes Flying Lessons and Other Stories so important and successful.Within the Flying Lessons and Other Stories...

Some submissions read like short stories and others like an early chapter in a book, but all have an interesting story and perspective to share. Well done by all.