“The Ship We Built” by Lexie Bean • Book Review
Contemporary, Middle Grade Danielle Brown Contemporary, Middle Grade Danielle Brown

“The Ship We Built” by Lexie Bean • Book Review

“I hope someone celebrates me when I change.”

★★★★ (4 / 5 stars) The Ship We Built is a beautiful story told beautifully. I would strongly recommend this read for any young person who chooses silence over speech, who buries their nose in a book to avoid conversation, who seems to drift miles away while only inches from you. It is equal parts powerful and hopeful and the book I wish a 10-year-old me had had to read when I felt alone and lost and misunderstood.

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