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Book Review: Hope Nation: YA Authors Share Personal Moments of Inspiration...
Publisher’s description Hope is a decision, but it is a hard one to recognize in the face of oppression, belittlement, alienation, and defeat. To help embolden hope, here is a powerhouse collection of...
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Book Review: The Serpent’s Secret (Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond #1) by...
Publisher’s description MEET KIRANMALA: INTERDIMENSIONAL DEMON SLAYER (Only she doesn’t know it yet.) On the morning of her twelfth birthday, Kiranmala is just a regular sixth grader living in...
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Book Review: The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Publisher’s description Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing #ownvoices novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet, about an Afro-Latina...
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Book Review: Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough
Publisher’s description Her mother died when she was twelve, and suddenly Artemisia Gentileschi had a stark choice: a life as a nun in a convent or a life grinding pigment for her father’s paint. She...
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Book Review: P.S. I Miss You by Jen Petro-Roy
Publisher’s description A heartbreaking—yet ultimately uplifting—epistolary novel about family, religion, and having the courage to be yourself. Evie is heartbroken when her strict Catholic parents...
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Book Review: The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani
Publisher’s description In the vein of Inside Out and Back Again and The War That Saved My Life comes a poignant, personal, and hopeful tale of India’s partition, and of one girl’s journey to find a...
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Book Review: After the Shot Drops by Randy Ribay
Publisher’s description A powerful novel about friendship, basketball, and one teen’s mission to create a better life for his family in the tradition of Jason Reynolds, Matt de la Pena, and Walter Dean...
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Book Review: Monsters Beware! by Jorge Aguirre and Rafael Rosado, a guest...
Publisher’s description Claudette is back AGAIN, and she’s ready to kick major monster butt! She’s fought giants, clobbered dragons, and now Claudette faces her biggest challenge yet… herself! Well,...
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Book Review: Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World by Pénélope Bagieu
Publisher’s description Throughout history and across the globe, one characteristic connects the daring women of Brazen: their indomitable spirit. With her characteristic wit and dazzling drawings,...
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Book Review: Hurricane Child by Kheryn Callender
Publisher’s description Caroline Murphy is a Hurricane Child. Being born during a hurricane is unlucky, and twelve-year-old Caroline has had her share of bad luck lately. She’s hated and bullied by...
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Book Review: The Summer of Jordi Perez (And the Best Burger in Los Angeles)...
Publisher’s description Seventeen, fashion-obsessed, and gay, Abby Ives has always been content playing the sidekick in other people’s lives. While her friends and sister have plunged headfirst into...
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Book Review: Antipodes by Michele Bacon
Publisher’s description When Erin Cerise steps off her plane in Christchurch, New Zealand, she’s determined to overcome her losses of swim team captainship, her boyfriend Ben, and her reputation. Her...
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Book Review: Life Inside My Mind: 31 Authors Share Their Personal Struggles...
Publisher’s description Your favorite YA authors including Ellen Hopkins, Maureen Johnson, and more recount their own experiences with mental illness in this raw, real, and powerful collection of...
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Book Review: How You Ruined My Life by Jeff Strand
Publisher’s description A new hilarious novel from the author of The Greatest Zombie Movie Ever and Stranger Things Have Happened. Rod’s life doesn’t suck. If you ask him, it’s pretty awesome. He may...
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Book Review: Boots on the Ground: America’s War in Vietnam by Elizabeth...
Publisher’s description America’s war in Vietnam. In over a decade of bitter fighting, it claimed the lives of more than 58,000 American soldiers and beleaguered four US presidents. More than forty...
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Book Review: The Gender Identity Workbook for Kids: A Guide to Exploring Who...
When I’m reviewing books for professional publications, I stay quiet about them on social media. I’m always really excited once a review comes out to be able to talk about the book, finally! Here’s one...
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Book Review: Stay Sweet by Siobhan Vivian
Publisher’s description From the author of The Last Boy and Girl in the World and The List comes a bold and sweet summer read about first love, feminism, and ice cream. Summer in Sand Lake isn’t...
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Book Review: A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns by Archie Bongiovanni...
When I’m reviewing books for professional publications, I stay quiet about them on social media. I’m always really excited once a review comes out to be able to talk about the book, finally! Here’s one...
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Book Review: We’ll Fly Away by Bryan Bliss
Publisher’s description Luke and Toby have always had each other’s backs. But then one choice—or maybe it is a series of choices—sets them down an irrevocable path. We’ll Fly Away weaves together Luke...
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Book Review: Four-Letter Word by Christa Desir
Publisher’s description Eight friends. One game. A dozen regrets. And a night that will ruin them all, in this high stakes gripping story of manipulation and innocence lost, from the author of Bleed...
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