ME, MOTH by Amber McBride. New York: Feiwel & Friends, 2021.  256p.  ISBN 9781250780379 hc. $14.99    Gr. 6-12     JUV FIC

Readers will find themselves immersed in this "book in verse" that uses metaphors and similes so effectively, the phrases create visuals as they are read.  Moth is a loner of sorts, living with her aunt and keeping to herself as she grives her family who was killed in a car crash.  Everything changes when she meets Sani on the bus ride home from school.  Sani is half Navajo and has a spirituality that attracts Moth from the start.  He also adheres to a schedule of prescription pills that give him focus and grounds him in reality.  When Sani decides to drive cross country to visit his father in New Mexico, Moth takes the opportunity to travel with him.  On the reservation, Sani and Moth share their visions and try to figure out why they feel they have met before.  Readers will do a double take when Sani's father provides the answers they seek. It's easy to see why MOTH was a finalist for the 2021 National Book Awad for Young People's Literature.
Lynette Suckow, Superiorland Preview Center, Marquette, MI