Ibi Zoboi does not shy away from the ecstasy of first love or the horrific violence of Detroit’s west side in “American Street” (Balzer & Bray 2017). Teenager Fabiola Toussaint is on her way to Detroit from Haiti to find…
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Book Reviews
- “You Bring the Distant Near” by Mitali Perkins
- “American Dream” by Ibi Zoboi
- “Genuine Fraud” by E. Lockhart
- “Forest World” by Margarita Engle
- “If I Was Your Girl” by Meredith Russo
- “Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers” by Deborah Heiligman
- “The Bitter Side of Sweet” by Tara Sullivan
- “Exit, Pursued by a Bear” by E.K. Johnston
- “Girl Rising: Changing the World One Girl at a Time” by Tanya Lee Stone
- “The Hate U Give” by Angie Thomas
- “Dreamland Burning” by Jennifer Latham
- “A List of Cages” by Robin Roe
- “The Sun is Also a Star” by Nicola Yoon
- “The Passion of Dolssa” by Julie Berry
- “March: Book Three” by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell
- “Ghost” by Jason Reynolds
- Second Loving vs. Virginia Giveaway – Thanksgiving
- “Dare to Disappoint: Growing Up in Turkey” by Özge Samanci
- Research for Loving vs. Virginia: a documentary novel
- “Presenting Buffalo Bill: The Man Who Invented the Wild West” by Candace Fleming
- First “Loving vs. Virginia” Give Away Winner
- “Another Brooklyn” by Jacqueline Woodson
- Why I wrote Loving vs. Virginia – Book Give Away
- Graphic Novels: “Child Soldier,” “Roller Girl,” “Baba Yaga’s Assistant”
- “The Lie Tree” by Frances Hardenge
- “Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War” by Steve Sheinkin
- “Flannery” by Lisa Moore
- “The Incident on the Bridge” by Laura McNeal
- “Anna and the Swallow Man” by Gavriel Savit
- “Ghosts of Heaven” by Marcus Sedgwick
- “The Boys in the Boat” by Daniel James Brown
- “Salt to the Sea” by Ruta Sepetys
- “The Tightrope Walkers” by David Almond
- “The Hired Girl” by Laura Amy Schlitz
- “These Shallow Graves” by Jennifer Donnelly
- “Don’t Fail Me Now” by Una LaMarche
- “Under a Painted Sky” by Stacey Lee
- “Last Leaves Falling” by Sarah Benwell
- “Audacity” by Melanie Crowder
- “The Boys Who Challenged Hitler” by Phillip Hoose
- “Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans” by Don Brown
- “Bone Gap” by Laura Ruby
- “The Game of Love and Death” by Martha Brockenbrough
- “Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own” by Kate Bolick
- “How I Discovered Poetry” by Marilyn Nelson
- “The Rebellion of Miss Lucy Ann Lobdell by William Klaber
- “How it Went Down” by Kekla Magoon
- “A Time to Dance” by Padma Venkatraman
- “All the Light We Cannot See” by Anthony Doer
- “Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina” by Michaela DePrince
- “Egg and Spoon” by Gregory Maguire
- “This One Summer” by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki
- “The Unfinished Life of Addison Stone” by Adele Griffin
- “I’ll Give You the Sun” by Jandy Nelson
- “Brown Girl Dreaming” by Jacqueline Woodson
- “Blood Guard” by Carter Roy
- “Going Over” by Beth Kephart
- “Lena Finkle’s Magic Barrel” by Anya Ulinich
- “Josephine” Recorded Books, read by Lizan Mitchell SLJ starred review
- “The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion & the Fall of Imperial Russia” by Candace Fleming
- “The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights” by Steve Sheinkin
- What How and Why do You Write?
- “West of the Moon” by Margi Preus
- “We Were Liars” by E. Lockhart
- “Pure Grit: How American World War II Nurses Survived Battle and Prison Camp in the Pacific” by Mary Cronk Farrell
- “All the Truth That’s In Me” by Julie Berry
- Imprisoned: The Betrayal of Japanese Americans During World War II by Martin W. Sandler
- “Love in the Time of Global Warming” by Francesca Lia Block
- “The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World’s Most Notorious Nazi” by Neal Bascomb
- “The Weight of Water” by Sarah Crossan
- “Fallout” by Todd Strasser (Candlewick 2013)
- “Josephine” gets starred reviews from SLJ and Shelf Awareness
- “March” by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell
- “Winger” by Andrew Smith
- “The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp” by Kathi Appelt
- “Salt: A Story of Friendship in a Time of War” by Helen Frost
- “Temple Grandin: How The Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World” by Sy Montgomery
- Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin by Liesl Shurtliff
- “Paperboy” by Vince Vawter
- Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 by Phillip Hoose
- “One Came Home” by Amy Timberlake
- “Titanic: Voices of the Disaster” by Deborah Hopkinson
- “The Abandoned” by Paul Gallico
- “Look Up! Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard” by Annette LeBlanc Cate
- “Best Friends Forever: A World War II Scrapbook” by Beverly Patt
- “Lulu and the Duck in the Park” by Hilary McKay
- “Navigating Early” by Clare Vanderpool
- “Little White Duck: A Childhood in China” by Na Liu and Andrés Vera Martinez
- “Wonder” by R.J. Palacio
- “Liar and Spy” by Rebecca Stead
- “The One and Only Ivan” by Katherine Applegate
- “Bluefish” by Pat Schmatz
- “The Dogs of Winter” by Bobbie Pyron
- “Outside Your Window: A First Book of Nature” by Nicola Davies; illustrated by Mark Hearld
- “A Dog’s Way Home” by Bobbie Pyron
- “No Shelter Here: Making the World a Kinder Place for Dogs” by Rob Laidlaw
- “About Average” by Andrew Clements
- “Kindred Souls” by Patricia MacLachlan and “The Friendship Doll” by Kirby Larson
- “Unseen Guest” by Maryrose Woods
- “Countdown” by Deborah Wiles, a documentary novel
- “Letters to Leo” by Amy Hest and “Bless This Mouse” by Lois Lowry
- “Jefferson’s Sons: A Founding Father’s Secret Children” by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
- “Witches: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem” by Rosalyn Schanzer
- “Wonderstruck” by Brian Selznick
- “Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart,” by Candace Fleming
- “Waiting for Magic” Patricia MacLachlan & “Saint Louis Armstrong Beach” Brenda Wood
- Midnight Zoo by Sonya Hartnett
- “Around the World” by Matt Phelan
- Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai
- “City of Orphans” by Avi
- “How to Survive Middle School” by Donna Gephart
- All the World’s a Stage: A Novel in Five Acts by Gretchen Woelfle
- Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman
- “One Crazy Summer” by Rita Williams-Garcia
- Heart of a Samurai (Newbery Honor) & The Secret World of Whales
- Newbery 2011 – Moon Over Manifest & Turtle in Paradise
- Words in the Dust by Trent Reedy
- First Chapter Books–Some Really Good Ones
- Cuba Books & interview with Antonio Sacre
- The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place – by Maryrose Wood – Books One and Two
- Storyteller by Patricia Reilly Giff (Wendy Lamb Books 2010)