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Book Review: Your Plantation Prom is Not Okay by Kelly McWilliams
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Book Review: The Year My Life Went Down the Toilet by Jake Maia Arlow
Publisher’s description A hilariously honest book about surviving middle school while navigating a chronic illness from the Stonewall Honor-winning author of Almost Flying. Twelve-year-old Al...
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Book Review: Forget-Me-Not Blue by Sharelle Byars Moranville
Publisher’s description Perfect for fans of Encanto and Turning Red, this intimate and heartfelt middle grade novel follows two siblings fighting to stay together amidst the ripple effects of...
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Book Review: True True by Don P. Hooper
Publisher’s description In this powerful and fast-paced YA contemporary debut, a Black teen from Brooklyn struggles to fit in at his almost entirely-white Manhattan prep school, resulting in a fight...
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Book Review: All You Have To Do by Autumn Allen
Publisher’s description Powerful, thought-provoking, and heartfelt, this debut YA novel by author Autumn Allen is a gripping look at what it takes (and takes and takes) for two Black students to...
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Book Review: Just Do This One Thing for Me by Laura Zimmermann
Publisher’s description Hilarious, heartbreaking, and sneaky suspenseful, Just Do This One Thing for Me is a timely novel about a rule-following daughter trying to hold her family together after her...
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Book Review: The Curious Vanishing of Beatrice Willoughby by G. Z. Schmidt
Publisher’s description The Amadeuses were always considered somewhat strange. Even before the incident. When six-year-old Beatrice Willoughby vanished at the Amadeuses’ annual All Hallows Eve party,...
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Book Review: Finch House by Ciera Burch
Publisher’s description Encanto meets Coraline in this spooky middle grade story that deals with family ties, fear of change, and generational trauma as it follows a girl who must convince an old,...
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Book Review: I Am Kavi by Thushanthi Ponweera
Publisher’s description Caught between two worlds—a poverty-stricken village and a fancy big-city school—a young Sri Lankan girl must decide who she really is and where she really belongs. 1998,...
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Book Review: All That Shines by Ellen Hagan
Publisher’s description A contemplative novel in verse that questions what it means to lose everything you once treasured and rediscover yourself, falling in love along the way. Chloe Brooks has only...
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Book Review: Nothing Else But Miracles by Kate Albus
Publisher’s description From the author of A Place to Hang the Moon comes a hopeful World War II story about three scrappy siblings on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. When 12-year-old Dory Byrne’s...
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Book Review: The Labors of Hercules Beal by Gary D. Schmidt
Publisher’s description From award-winning author Gary D. Schmidt, a warm and witty novel in the tradition of The Wednesday Wars, in which a seventh grader has to figure out how to fulfill an...
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Book Review: Kin: Rooted in Hope by Carole Boston Weatherford, Jeffery Boston...
Publisher’s description A powerful portrait of a Black family tree shaped by enslavement and freedom, rendered in searing poems by acclaimed author Carole Boston Weatherford and stunning art by her...
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Book Review: The A&A Detective Agency: The Fairfleet Affair by K. H. Saxton
Publisher’s description Follow clues, solve puzzles, crack the code… find the missing millionaire. The celebrated museums of the Fairfleet Institute are known for curating the mysteries of humanity....
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Book Review: All the Fighting Parts by Hannah V. Sawyerr
Content note: This book is about a sexual assault. Publisher’s description In the vein of Grown and The Poet X, Hannah V. Sawyerr’s All the Fighting Parts is a searing and defiant young adult novel in...
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Book Review: Be That Way by Hope Larson
Publisher’s description Seventeen-year-old Christine keeps a journal of an eventful year in her life in mid-90s, while juggling troubled friendships and looking for love. It’s January 1, 1996, and...
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Book Review: Gather by Kenneth M. Cadow
Publisher’s description A resourceful teenager in rural Vermont struggles to hold on to the family home while his mom recovers from addiction in this striking debut novel. Ian Gray isn’t supposed to...
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Book Review: The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Transgender Studies
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Book Review: Montgomery and the Case of the Golden Key by Tracy Occomy Crowder
Publisher’s description Junior Library Guild SelectionNew Visions Award Winner, Tu Books It’s 2008, and ten-year-old Montgomery “Monty” Carver is out to find the origin of a golden key found in his...
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Book Review: One in a Million by Claire Lordon
Publisher’s description Debut graphic novelist Claire Lordon’s medical misfortunes may be one in a million in this relatable memoir, but so is her determination, grit, and passion to beat the odds and...
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