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Category Archives: Review
Review: Stargazing by Jen Wang
STARGAZING is a heartfelt and beautifully told story of friendship, individuality, independence, and learning from differences. We are introduced to Christine, the main character, at a musical performance where she shows both insecurity in being seen as “not as talented” … Continue reading
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Tagged #WeNeedDIverseBooks, Graphic Novel, Jen Wang, middle grade, Stargazing
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Review: GUTS by Raina Telgemeier
In GUTS, Raina Telgemeier tells the story of her elementary school self to expertly depict how an innocent and common occurrence can spur anxiety that manifests in physical symptoms to become all but debilitating. When 4th Grade Raina catches the stomach … Continue reading
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Tagged Anxiety, Elementary school, Graphic Novel, GUTS, middle grade, Raina Telgemeier, Scholastic
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Review: Wildfire by Rodman Philbrick
This novel, aimed at grades 3-7, is action-packed and exciting and full of kids taking on impossible challenges with perseverance and determination. WILDFIRE by Rodman Philbrick is about Sam and Delphy, two kids who get caught out in a terrifying … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, elementary readers, Friendship, maine, middle grade, overcoming obstacles, Rodman Philbrick, Wildfire
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Review: Not If I Can Help It by Carolyn Mackler
This new middle-grade novel by Carolyn Mackler is engaging, endearing, and informative. NOT IF I CAN HELP IT follows Willa, a 5th grader with Sensory Processing Disorder, as her comfortable and just-about-manageable world abruptly turns upside-down. The news that Willa’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Anxiety, Carolyn Mackler, middle grade, Not If I Can Help It, Sensory Processing Disorder, SPD
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Review: SHOUT by Laurie Halse Anderson
For long-time readers of Laurie Halse Anderson’s novels, particularly SPEAK, this new book, SHOUT – a memoir in verse, will give insight and depth to both Anderson’s life, including traumatic events that have informed her fiction, and the aftermath of … Continue reading
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Tagged banned books, Laurie Halse Anderson, overcoming adversity, sexual assault, SHOUT, Speak, survivor, Young Adult
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Review: FOCUSED by Alyson Gerber
My 10-year-old read this before I did, and she told me I MUST READ IT. So I dutifully picked up Alyson Gerber’s FOCUSED, and read it. My 10-year-old gives good advice. The novel, aimed at 8-12 year olds, follows Clea, … Continue reading
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Tagged #readmore, ADHD, Alyson Gerber, educators, Focused, Friendship, middle grade, Middle school, scholastic press
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Review: For Black Girls Like Me by Mariama J. Lockington
Makeda June Kirkland, “Keda,” is an 11-year-old transracial adoptee (she is Black, her parents and sister are white) whose family moves across the country and far away from her home, her school, and her best friend. That disruption would be … Continue reading
Review: The Bone Garden by Heather Kassner
Heather Kassner’s debut novel, THE BONE GARDEN, is a creepy, eerie, hopeful read that includes themes of identity, perseverance, friendship, and courage wrapped in the horror of fairy tales before Disney cleaned them up. Kassner’s dedication is to her “gram, … Continue reading
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Tagged #readmore, Fantasy, Heather Kassner, Horror, matt saunders, middle grade, mystery, review, The Bone Garden
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