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March 13, 2022

Cybils YASF Finalist Review: The City Beautiful

I was not at all surprised to see that Aden Polydoros’ The City Beautiful was a Sydney Taylor Book Award winner. The writing is…

March 29, 2018

Cybils Review: SOUPY LEAVES HOME by Cecil Castellucci and Jose Pimienta

Synopsis: Graphic novels lend themselves to telling a wide variety of stories, and Soupy Leaves Home is one of those that helps push the…

February 27, 2018

Turning Pages Reads: THE RADICAL ELEMENT, edited by JESSICA SPOTSWOOD

Welcome to another session of Turning Pages! Synopsis: Women who persist aren’t a recent innovation. A history of intolerance, which led to insistent female…

October 10, 2017

Turning Pages Reads: I AM ALFONSO JONES by TONY MEDINA, ill. JOHN EDWARD JENNINGS & STACY ROBINSON

Welcome to another session of Turning Pages! Usually A.F. is the one with the graphic novels, but I was given the opportunity for an…

September 6, 2017

Turning Pages Reads: RAYMIE NIGHTINGALE by KATE DICAMILLO

Welcome to another session of Turning Pages! I picked up this book because of the author, and the enigmatic – or meaningful, as Betsy…

July 25, 2017

Turning Pages Reads: THE GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO VICE AND VIRTUE by MACKENZI LEE

Welcome to another session of Turning Pages! If you ever wanted to read Jane Austen’s books with a male lead… you might have to…

July 17, 2017

Monday Review: DREAMER’S POOL by Juliet Marillier

Synopsis: The Blackthorn & Grim trilogy by Juliet Marillier, which starts with the novel Dreamer’s Pool, is not technically a YA trilogy, but readers…

July 3, 2017

Turning Pages Reads: IT ALL COMES DOWN TO THIS by KAREN ENGLISH

Welcome to another session of Turning Pages! Synopsis:Sophia’s moved to Montego Drive in LA with her lawyer father and her gorgeous mother, and her…

June 7, 2017

SURVEYING STORIES: The Personal & Political in Rita Williams-Garcia’s ONE CRAZY SUMMER trilogy

Middle grade books can run a broad gamut from stories of dead dogs to bridesmaids to adventures on scouting trips. There can be romances,…

May 22, 2017

Monday Review: DREAMLAND BURNING by Jennifer Latham

Synopsis: I haven’t read Jennifer Latham’s first book Scarlett Undercover, about a teen Muslim girl detective, but after reading and enjoying Dreamland Burning, I…

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