Writing Recommendations | Part 1

I will be making recommendations of texts that inspire me as a writer, at least once a week. My first recommendation will be on the book How To Be Luminous by Harriet Reuter Hapgood.

This is a book perfect for students from ages 12-15 (in my opinion). How To Be Luminous is filled with emotions that allow you to feel along with the characters in this story. A small snippet of this book from Goodreads may be helpful if you would like to know more:

When seventeen-year-old Minnie Sloe's mother disappears, so does her ability to see color. How can young artist Minnie create when all she sees is black-and-white?

Middle child Minnie and her two sisters have always been able to get through anything together: growing up without fathers, living the eccentric artist lifestyle, and riding out their mother's mental highs and lows. But when they lose their mother, Minnie wonders if she could lose everything: her family, her future, her first love . . . and maybe even her mind.

My personal rating of this book: 4/5 stars

Let me know if you would like me to post about another book by either commenting or filling out the form on the home page. Don't forget to enter in the Student Writing Feature each Sunday. Thank you for reading!