BOOK REVIEW: Keri and Kalina a Windflower Saga Chapter Book By Aleksandra Layland

Ten-year-old Keri and Seven-year-old Kalina are second cousins. They share a great sadness. Keri lost her parents when she was only two years old. Kalina lost her mother only a year ago when she was six. She still has her father, but he often works far away.

After her mother’s death, Kalina joined Keri at her boarding school. The two became the best of friends and now do everything together. Suddenly Kalina must decide if that will change.

        

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REVIEW

If your daughter loves the American Girl books, then Keri and Kalina is right up their alley. Think American Girl meets fantasy, or maybe Sisterhood of The Traveling Pants the junior version. In Keri and Kalina their friendship is full of sisterhood and family in a fantasy land of dukes and royals and cultural tradition. The only downside is the introduction the author Layland gives explaining how Keri and Kalina are cousins. I as an adult was kind of confused at the math of it all, and I think I took it to inappropriate place (If Keri and Kalina’s Grandparents are brother and sister that makes them second cousins? How? Isn’t that incestuous?) How younger readers will compute it I am not sure. Moving past that the book is warm and charming. Layland captures young girl youth with innocence and whim telling the tale of these two girls with the power of friendship and family.

For Windflower Saga follower’s Keri and Kalina adds to the saga as we learn a bit more about Keridewin and her experience and time at Whitehaven where in the book “Of Wisdom and Valor” we meet Keridewin at for the first time.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Aleksandra Layland is a retired civil engineer and a federal civil servant who worked primarily for the United States Air Force as a senior installation engineering manager responsible for buildings, airfields, infrastructure, fire protection, and emergency preparedness. She also served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Western Caroline Islands where she helped build school classrooms and cafeterias, low-income housing, and simple village water distribution systems. Her other interests include arts and crafts, family genealogy, religion, and spirituality, fostering peace in the world, and enjoying retirement with family and friends.