{"id":44922,"date":"2025-06-07T22:57:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T02:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=44922"},"modified":"2025-06-07T22:57:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T02:57:30","slug":"review-of-continental-drifter-by-kathy-macleod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=44922","title":{"rendered":"Review of Continental Drifter, by Kathy Macleod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/continental_drifter_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/continental_drifter_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"178\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-45307\" \/><\/a><em>Continental Drifter<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Kathy Macleod<\/p>\n<p>First Second, 2024.  216 pages.<br \/>\nReview written February 18, 2025, from a library book.<br \/>\nStarred Review<br \/>\n2025 Asian\/Pacific American Literature Award Winner, Middle Grades<br \/>\n2024 Cybils Finalist, Elementary\/Middle School Graphic Novels<\/p>\n<p>This is one of those wonderful middle school memoirs in graphic novel form &#8211; the perfect way to express the angst of middle school.  In Kathy Macleod&#8217;s case, she feels pulled between two continents.  During the school year, she lives in Bangkok, Thailand, where her mother is from.  And this summer they&#8217;re going to Maine, where her father is from.<\/p>\n<p>Kathy speaks English at her International school in Bangkok and she watches American TV shows, so she hopes that she&#8217;ll belong better in America.  And this year, she finally gets to go to summer camp.<\/p>\n<p>But at summer camp, there are girls who know each other already, and everyone has white skin, and they think she&#8217;s from Taiwan, and once again she has trouble feeling like she belongs.<\/p>\n<p>This story expresses the ups and downs of being between cultures and gets you thoroughly on Kathy&#8217;s side as she drifts between continents.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1250813743\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\">Sonderbooks<\/a> at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Nonfiction\/continental_drifter.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Nonfiction\/continental_drifter.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: I am an Amazon Affiliate, and will earn a small percentage if you order a book on Amazon after clicking through from my site.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer:  I am a professional librarian, but the views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n<p>What did you think of this book?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continental Drifter by Kathy Macleod First Second, 2024. 216 pages. Review written February 18, 2025, from a library book. Starred Review 2025 Asian\/Pacific American Literature Award Winner, Middle Grades 2024 Cybils Finalist, Elementary\/Middle School Graphic Novels This is one of those wonderful middle school memoirs in graphic novel form &#8211; the perfect way to express [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,11,82,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-childrens-nonfiction-review","category-graphic-memoir","category-starred-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45308,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44922\/revisions\/45308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}