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Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
Author: Dusti Bowling
Published September 5th, 2017 by Sterling Children’s Books
Summary: Aven Green loves to tell people that she lost her arms in an alligator wrestling match, or a wildfire in Tanzania, but the truth […]
Highly Illogical Behavior
Author: John Corey Whaley
Published: May 10, 2016 by Dial
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Solomon is agoraphobic. He hasn’t left the house in three years, which is fine by him.
Ambitious Lisa desperately wants to get into the second-best psychology program for college […]
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Author: Rahul Kanakia
Published: August 2, 2016 by Disney-Hyperion
Summary: I’m your protagonist—Reshma Kapoor—and if you have the free time to read this book, then you’re probably nothing like me.
Reshma is a college counselor’s dream. She’s the top-ranked senior at her ultra-competitive Silicon […]
The Secret Side of Empty
Author: Maria E. Andreu
Published: March 11, 2014 by Running Press
Summary: As a straight-A student with a budding romance and loyal best friend, M.T.’s life seems as apple-pie American as her blondish hair and pale skin. But M.T. hides two facts to […]
The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B
Author: Teresa Toten
Published: March 10, 2015 by Delacorte
GoodReads Summary: Deep, understated, and wise, this engaging YA novel, winner of the Governor General’s Award in Canada, is about more than the tough issue of teens dealing with obsessive-compulsive order. It also […]
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
By Ricki On September 7, 2016 · 2 Comments · In Allusion, Biography/Autobiography/Memoir, Characterization, Classroom Library Buy, Close Reading/Analysis, Graphic Novels/Comics, LGBTQ, Mood, Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday, Setting, Tone, Vocabulary/Vocabulary Development
Nonfiction Wednesday
Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday is hosted by Kid Lit Frenzy and was started to help promote the reading of nonfiction texts. Most Wednesdays, we will be participating and will review a nonfiction text (though it may not always be a picture book).
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Still a Work in Progress by Jo Knowles
By Kellee On August 12, 2016 · 3 Comments · In Characterization, Classroom Library Buy, Novel, Plot Development, Realistic Fiction/Contemporary Fiction, Voice
Still a Work in Progress
Author: Jo Knowles
Published August 2nd, 2016 by Candlewick Press
Summary: In a return to middle-grade fiction, master of perspectives Jo Knowles depicts a younger sibling struggling to maintain his everyday life while coping with his sister’s secret struggle.
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