Bookslut weighs in
Colleen Mondor, in her March “Bookslut in Training” column for Bookslut, wrote some very nice things about No Castles Here. In particular she picked up that the book has something to say about surviving in a poor community.
[T]his is a book about class, something that is rarely ever present in children’s literature unless tied to a race storyline. Augie and his neighborhood are poor; his school is poor and because of that they are easy to dismiss or even worse, generalize. Bauer shows just how important a school can be to the children who attend it and how that school in many ways is the foundation for the neighborhood that surrounds it.
You can read the entire review here. I’m quite proud of it.