Unity Club was such a refreshing read. It follows our main character, Brett as she juggles to find balance between healing after her mother's departure (continuing her life with her boyfriend in another province) and being president of her school's Unity Club. When a new group home for at-risk youth is established in her neighbourhood, she witnesses at first hand at how quickly people are to point fingers.

This book focuses on integrity and welcoming differences. It's a wonderful book that really highlights the need for acceptance and kindness. I enjoyed how well the characters were crafted. They had a solid voice and the writing was easy to follow, I also enjoyed the relationship between Brett and her father though I had wished we saw that develop a bit further.

The friendship Brett shared with Jude was very sweet and it was very nice to see so much diversity featured in a middle grade book.

Unity Club is about accepting everyone and not judging them before you even get to know them. This book highlights the fact that just because someone comes from an unordinary home, it doesn't mean that something is wrong with them or that you should assume the worst of them. People believe we should have places like group homes, but place it near them and they quickly change their mind without even giving people a chance, which is wrong.



This is a fast-paced, quick read (like 100 pages) in which I enjoyed all of it. I liked all the points it highlighted about equality and how we shouldn't judge others before giving them a chance. I think that this is something that everyone struggles with and it's not fair to people like Jude who didn't really have a choice in his lot in life. I would recommend this book to everyone.

Unity Club was better than I expected. I actually liked the characters and found the story interesting. I liked the ending and how what I wanted to happen did. :) The writing was good and I felt like for the amount of pages, the story was well done.

All in all, a good read.

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By sheer coincidence, I read two of this author's YA books back to back. One I loved and this one - not horrible, just a bit more predictable than I would have liked.

Love the writing - breezy, down to earth and to the point. Story plot was kind of "been there, seen that" and I think this is why this book did not enchant me.

Not horrible, but also not great.