A review by doughnuts1
Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick

2.0

This book was very enlightening, I learned a lot about the Cambodian Genocide which I previously didn't know about. But to be honest, I thought this book was a little discriminating to asians. Throughout the whole story Arn speaks without articles and speaks in the wrong tense. Maybe I just took it personally because I'm asian, but i thought this book could have been delivered better. I know many stories like to be in the actual character's point of view at that age, but Arn just comes out like he's trying too hard to sound like an illiterate asian. Maybe Arn speaks the way he does because this book is supposed to be for middle schoolers, but it's on Maryland's Black-Eyed Susan awards nominee in the High School category, so therefore I'm going to assume that it's actually for High Schoolers.