Review By HOMA WOODRUM The angle that brought this book to us at Vegbooks (a free review copy) is that the protagonist in the story is vegan and a vegan vampire also is featured, so I will focus on those aspects as well as the claim that this book is appropriate for kids as young […]
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Out of Breath
October 18th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Books
Tags: Blair Richmond·Female Protagonist·Homa Woodrum·Older Elementary·Portrayal of Vegetarians in Books·Vampires·vegan·vegan teens·Young Adult
Tofu and T. rex
December 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Books
Review By JENNIFER GANNETT After a botched attempt at activism involving her Texas school’s mascot (“a poor, ancient, drugged up steer” named Angus),the eighth-grade protagonist in Tofu and T. rex, Frederika Murchison-Kowalski, is sent to live with her grandfather and dinosaur-obsessed cousin in Chicago. Freddie is a recent convert to veganism – formerly octo-lavo, she notes […]
Tags: Activism·Female Protagonist·Greg Leitich Smith·Jennifer Gannett·Novel·Older Elementary·Portrayal of Vegetarians in Books·vegan·vegan kids·Vegan Protagonist·vegan teens
Wurst Case Scenario
December 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Books
Review By JENNIFER GANNETT Wurst Case Scenario is a young adult novel chronicling the coming-of-age of a young vegan woman as she moves from her hometown in Colorado to begin college in Wisconsin. Author Catherine Clark does an excellent job of letting us eavesdrop in on her character, Courtney Van Dragen Smith, as we witness […]
Tags: Catherine Clark·College·Early Adult·Female Protagonist·Jennifer Gannett·Older Elementary·Portrayal of Vegetarians in Books·vegan·vegan teens·Wisconsin