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A review by bookgirl1209
A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramée
3.0
Shayla is a twelve year old who does not like to be involved in trouble. In her first year of junior
high all she wants is to hang with her two childhood friends and fly under the radar.
But junior high has all kinds of pitfalls that are unavoidable and Shay is pretty sure trouble is
coming her way and this makes her afraid - afraid of losing her friends, afraid of not being true
to herself, afraid of standing out and afraid of fading into the background.
After she attends a powerful silent Black LIves Matter protest Shayla starts to think that
sometimes doing the right thing is more scary than doing the wrong thing. But it needs to be
done anyway.
Lisa Moore Ramee has done a good job portraying the unsureness of twelve year olds without
being condescending and while BLM is certainly featured it is not the focus of the novel. A good
one to open communications about racism, individuality and friendship.
high all she wants is to hang with her two childhood friends and fly under the radar.
But junior high has all kinds of pitfalls that are unavoidable and Shay is pretty sure trouble is
coming her way and this makes her afraid - afraid of losing her friends, afraid of not being true
to herself, afraid of standing out and afraid of fading into the background.
After she attends a powerful silent Black LIves Matter protest Shayla starts to think that
sometimes doing the right thing is more scary than doing the wrong thing. But it needs to be
done anyway.
Lisa Moore Ramee has done a good job portraying the unsureness of twelve year olds without
being condescending and while BLM is certainly featured it is not the focus of the novel. A good
one to open communications about racism, individuality and friendship.