Top 5 Tuesday — on Wednesday! This is a weekly meme created by Shanah, the Bionic Book Worm, and now hosted by Meeghan at Meeghan Reads.
This week’s topic:
Top 5 books set in the present
Contemporary really isn’t my thing. Compared to the other genres, I read it the least. I guess I just prefer to either get stuck in the past or in some fantastical land than having to deal with the present. But somehow I managed to come up with books for this theme.
Virtually Yours by Jeremy Holt, illus. by Elizabeth Beals
It’s a standalone contemporary-romance graphic novel about a guy and girl who connect on a dating app called Virtually Yours.
The Journey by Francesca Sanna (illus.)
It’s a children’s picture book about the refugee crisis. It focuses on a family, a mother and her two children, trying to migrate to a new land because their country is ravaged by war.
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