Happy Pub Day to Maybe, Maybe Marisol Rainey! Thank you to @harperkids and @theshelfstuff for the gifted copy. QOTD: What book from your childhood reminds you of your adventures as a kid? Children's and middle grade reads bring me so much joy. I am so excited to read this one because Marisol reminds me so much of myself as a child. I also have a mother who was born somewhere else. I lived for backyard adventures so much so that I would dig up the backyard looking for dinosaur bones. I always wanted to climb trees and build a tree house so I could be alone with my books. I had a big imagination and wanted to grow up and be the girl version of Indiana Jones. If you're looking for a fun, adventurous read please pick this one up and be sure to share with the young ones in your life. It is also a perfect read for API Heritage Month and if you're looking for books with Filipino representation. 🌳SYNOPSIS🌳 Marisol Rainey's mother was born in the Philippines. Marisol's father works and lives part-time on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. And Marisol, who has a big imagination and likes to name inanimate objects, has a tree in her backyard she calls Peppina . . . but she's way too scared to climb it. This all makes Marisol the only girl in her small Louisiana town with a mother who was born elsewhere and a father who lives elsewhere (most of the time)--the only girl who's fearful of adventure and fun. Will Marisol be able to salvage her summer and have fun with Jada, her best friend? Maybe. Will Marisol figure out how to get annoying Evie Smythe to leave her alone? Maybe. Will Marisol ever get to spend enough real time with her father? Maybe. Will Marisol find the courage to climb Peppina? Maybe. #MaybeMaybeMarisolRainey #bookfeature #ErinEntradaKelly #HarperKids #TheShelfStuff #BIPOCbookstagram #bookphotos #middlegradebooks #Filipinobooks #bookish #bibliophile #bookworm #APIHeritageMonth #Asianauthors #bookstagram #booksoutside #booksandtrees #bookdinnature #bookrecs #HarperInfluencer #APIBookstagramtour #Asianbooks #bookdragon #ownvoices #Louisiana #bookstagrammer #bookishactivities #weneeddiversebooks #readingislife #readingiscool (at McCarren Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/COedpoRrBwc/?igshid=czu623cpkzl4