Lexile = 760
Zoboi has been a finalist for the National Book Award in Young Adult Fiction. She is best known for American Street, published in 2017. She writes about race and attempts to expand her reader's often limited view of black America. Pride is a reimagining of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
In this version, the Darcy boys move in across the street from the Benitez family and their four daughters. Sounds familiar, right? Add a meddling mother, money, and girls with an attitude and you have this new tale. I keep this novel in the romance section, so you know that love is the backdrop of it all. I liked best that I was a few chapters in before I got the Pride and Prejudice connections. (I know... I'm slow, right?)
Watch a very interesting clip with the author showing the real neighborhood that is the setting of Pride HERE.
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