I think I've reviewed this book about three times now, but I just can't stop coming back to it. 

I'm currently reading Echo which was a Newbery honor book in 2016, the same year Last Stop on Market Street won the medal. I wanted to see if I thought Last Stop really deserved the medal over Echo (which I'm enjoying much more than I ever liked Last Stop). 

This time I really paid attention to the words, and thinking about it, de la Peña does write effectively and evocatively. There is an expansive story conveyed in very little text.

I think after this reading I better understand why Last Stop won the Newbery, though I still don't agree that it should have won. 

A good companion series to Anna Hibiscus and good to read on its own. 

The first time I read Nimona I was a little ambivalent about it. I kind of wish I had read it while it was being published on the web (I followed Noelle Stevenson's tumblr but never read Nimona until it was published). I think the serialization would have helped me enjoy it more the first time.

I enjoyed it more when I reread it earlier this year. I was feeling bad but found the story uplifting. Sometimes monster girls' stories are just what you need.

A good story if a little didactic. Add me to the number of people confused as to why this book won the Newbery. To be fair though I think the Newbery committee is often wrong (see: 2014, Flora and Ulysses). 

This comic was confusing, but that's OK. Mostly it was weird to me that the girls are supposed to be 12. They look a lot older to me but maybe that's because I was born in the year the book is set?

I just kept reading because 1. I liked these supposedly 12-year-old girls 2. The book is gorgeous and 3. I had faith that the story was going somewhere. And I still do. I'll definitely keep up with this one.