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Reviewed by Emily-Jane Hills Orford for Readers' Favorite
The foster care system is complicated and, at times, it doesn’t have the best interest at heart of those it’s supposed to protect. In Sheryl Recinos’s Crossover, Cuervo shares her story of life in the foster care system and how quickly a little mistake plunges her life into turmoil, removing her from foster care and placing her in the juvie system. Now she’s a criminal and all that she has going for her is her art. Is it enough to keep her mental health? To keep her on the path toward freedom that so many of us take for granted? She sees herself as a bird, different birds, actually, and she draws herself as these birds. The metaphors of each bird are significant and poignant as artistic views of life from above and below.
Sheryl Recinos’s young adult novel, Crossover, is a Transitional Age Youth Series work. Written totally in free verse, this poetic masterpiece paints a dire view of the life so many young people have to endure. As the author summarizes her intent, “Cuervo’s story is a story of all of us, reaching out for hope. Trying to find our voices so that we can get the help we need.” The author has done this and more. Her use of free verse to tell this story makes it into a powerful voice of artistic expression. Indeed the entire novel is a work of art. Powerful, sensational, compassionate, and told from the heart.
