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Book Review: Not Nothing by Gayle Forman
Publisher’s description “The book we all need at the time we all need it.” —Katherine Applegate, Newbery Award–winning author of The One and Only Ivan In this multigenerational middle grade novel of...
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Book Review: Buffalo Dreamer by Violet Duncan
Publisher’s description An illuminating novel about the importance of reclaiming the past, based on the author’s family history Summer and her family always spend relaxed summers in Alberta, Canada,...
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Book Review: Are You Nobody Too? by Tina Cane
Publisher’s description After years of discomfort as the only Chinese student at her private middle school, Emily transfers to Chinatown’s I.S. 23 for 8th Grade and ends up feeling more disconnected...
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Book Review: Popcorn by Rob Harrell
Publisher’s description The beloved author of Wink is back with a hilarious and moving story about coping with anxiety on a day when everything is going wrong Andrew’s just trying to make it through...
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Book Review: The Sherlock Society by James Ponti
Publisher’s description In the tradition of Nancy Drew, four kids and one grandfather in Miami tackle a decades-old mystery in this first book in the action-packed and funny Sherlock Society middle...
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Book Review: Library Girl by Polly Horvath
Publisher’s description After living in the public library for the last eleven years, Essie must learn to adapt to a world that’s not as perfect as the stories she’s grown up with in this heartfelt...
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Book Review: Kareem Between by Shifa Saltagi Safadi
Publisher’s description This heartfelt coming-of-age novel in verse tells the powerful story of a seventh-grade Syrian American boy and his struggles, big and small, as he navigates middle school.“As...
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Book Review: Once They See You: 13 Stories to Shiver and Shock by Josh Allen...
Publisher’s description There’s no escaping these deliciously creepy tales of everyday horror, perfect for fans of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Once you open this book, you’re doomed . . ....
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Book Review: Wishbone by Justine Pucella Winans
Publisher’s description Coraline meets Ghost Squad in this terrifying story about what happens when you aren’t careful what you wish for. Ollie Di Costa wishes things could be different. He wishes the...
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Book Review: The Diamond Explorer by Kao Kalia Yang
Publisher’s description From APALA-winning author and Guggenheim Fellow Kao Kalia Yang, a middle-grade debut about a Hmong American boy’s struggle to find a place for himself in America and in the...
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Book Review: Westfallen by Ann and Ben Brashares
Publisher’s description “What a thrilling—and chilling—adventure!” —Margaret Peterson Haddix, New York Times bestselling author From #1 New York Times bestselling Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants...
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Book Review: A Two-Placed Heart by Doan Phuong Nguyen
Publisher’s description Afraid her sister (and maybe even herself) could lose sight of their Vietnamese identity, twelve-year-old Bom writes a poetic memoir to help them both remember—a love letter in...
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Post-It Note Reviews: Hall Monitor Lizards, Science, Biographies, a Guide for...
You know the drill by now: I can’t write up long reviews for everything that I read, but I love to share as much as I read as I can! Here are quick reviews of some of the things I read in September....
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Book Review: Answers to Dog by Pete Hautman
Publisher’s description National Book Award winner Pete Hautman explores a friendship like no other—and the universal truth that dogs make life better, especially for underdogs. Evan doesn’t seem to...
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Book Review: Hungry Bones by Louise Hung
Publisher’s description A chilling middle grade novel about a girl haunted by a hungry ghost. Molly Teng sees things no one else can. By touching the belongings of people who have died, she gets brief...
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Book Review: Twenty-Four Seconds from Now . . .: A LOVE Story by Jason Reynolds
Publisher’s description “Jason Reynolds has done it again!…Fresh from start to finish…This is what it could be, should be, if only we were all as lucky as Aria. Girls (and everyone) wait for your...
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Book Review: Pick the Lock by A. S. King
Publisher’s description From Michael L. Printz Award winner A.S. King, a weird and insightful new novel about a girl intent on picking the lock of her toxic family. Jane Vandermaker-Cook would like...
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Book Review: Find Her by Ginger Reno
Publisher’s description Five years, three months, and twelve days.That’s how long Wren’s mother has been missing. In dreams, Wren can see her again: her eyes, her hair, her smile. She can even hear...
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Book Review: Halfway There: A Graphic Memoir of Self-Discovery by Christine Mari
Publisher’s description A poignant young adult graphic memoir that follows one teen’s year abroad in Japan, as she seeks to reconcile both sides of her biracial identity. Christine has always felt she...
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Post-It Note Reviews: Soccer, the Apocalypse, a Reunited Family, Witches, and...
It’s a good thing I started adding books to this post in October, because November has not been a productive reading month for me. That said, I am very grateful for the books here that managed to hold...
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