I liked how innocent Nyira was and how she was able to make friends. Nyira and Enriquillo are well developed and likeable characters,
I laughed and cried with Nyira. The books deals with death, slavery, abuse , fighting, loss of culture, friendship. it's always hard for me to read this kind of subject. But this book gave feeling of warmth. The parts dealing with magic felt very natural. I liked this book.

Loved this book. For me it is reminiscent of The Jungle book, but more profound. It is about the power of love, family, and friendship, and the sacrifices we make to protect those we love. It is about fearing what we don't understand, and deriving hatred from that misunderstanding. It is about the atrocity of slavery, and those who impose their will on others. Most of all it is about the search for ultimate freedom and the price that each of us would pay to obtain it.

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I loved this story. It was really cute. As the audience is generally meant to be the middle grades (5-8) it was definitely a bit on the shallow side, but the uniqueness of the story and the magic behind it brought to life a really fun adventure story. It did remind me also of Tarzan a little bit, but this was just somehow different. I think it was the cross culture in and of itself. You rarely see stories like this with two little brown kids as the main character and definitely not with the themes of slavery involved the way it was.

This was just a really fun little story and I loved Nyira in the story as a representation of a strong little brown girl as the focal heroine in the story.

We are really hoping for book 2 to come out soon, this is so innovative and new - I read it with my daughter and we were enthralled. It's well written, original, challenging and excellent.

My daughter loved this book. Thanks for the advanced copy. I can't say much but that she could not put this book down. I will be purchasing more for her.

While the premise of Nyria and the Invisuble boy was good, and I appreciate the diverse cast of characters, I could not get over the voice that Harrell used. It was impossibly childish—I worried that I was reading a chapter book, not a novel, the whole time. I ended up giving up on this book because the voice was too simplistic and overly childish. ,

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This lovely childrens' novel introduced me to a lot of new mythology and history and challenged many of my assumptions about Haiti. That makes this a very important novel, and one that can help with representation. But it also helps kids understand how diverse and spectacular our world and its histories and peoples are. I will be using this novel with middle-graders.

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This was a very different read. At first, it was similar to Tarzan of the Apes, and then it reminded me of Underground to Canada, but still, this book was very different from anything I have ever read. I wish there had been more of the apes, especially since there was one on the cover and we only saw them in the first few chapters.

There were many characters and subplots in this book. I found it hard to keep them all straight and there were a few I didn't care for, but I loved the ones of the main characters, which is the most important. Nyira's especially. I loved the historical aspect and it kept me turning the pages. I loved how innocent she was and how she was an empowering character because she was able to make friends, not just because she had special powers. It's my favourite type of empowerment.

I could see this book being read in a 7th or 8th grade history class. It had a lot of points that would make for a good class discussion and it is directed towards a younger audience so it is better than some of the books I had to read. I think its audience was a bit too young for me, but it was still very interesting and unique.

Overall, I would recommend this book to someone looking for a very original read.