Book Reviews
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Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann
Alice is ready to spend her summer watching her favorite TV shows, hanging out with her best friends Feenie and Ryan, and working at the local library. But her relaxing plans are put on hold when her girlfriend decides to… Continue reading
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We Still Belong by Christine Day
Wesley Wilder wakes up early on Indigenous People’s Day. She’s looking forward to the intertribal powwow later in the evening, but first she has to get through an important day at school. Her first publication–a poem about Indigenous People’s Day–is… Continue reading
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Kiss Number 8 by Colleen AF Venable and Ellen T. Crenshaw
Mads spends her time going to church, attending minor league baseball games with her dad, and hanging out with her wild best friend, Cat. But one day she overhears her dad–the parent she’s always felt understood her the most–talking on… Continue reading
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Displacement by Kiku Hughes
On a trip to San Francisco with her mom, Kiku suddenly finds herself thrown back in time. She’s landed in the early 1940s, to the incarceration camp where her grandmother Ernestina, along with hundreds of other Japanese Americans, was… Continue reading
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Hazel's Theory of Evolution by Lisa Jenn Bigelow
Hazel already has enough to worry about, starting at a new school in eighth grade. But when one of her moms announces that she’s pregnant, Hazel couldn’t feel worse about it. Hazel loves her family, and the idea of… Continue reading
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The Grace of Wild Things by Heather Fawcett
Grace is certain that no one will ever adopt her from the orphanage because of her magic, which causes those who look at her to remember their most shameful moment. So she turns to the one person who couldn’t be… Continue reading
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Candidly Cline by Kathryn Ormsbee
Here’s my second highlight post for a book that will be featured on my upcoming LGBTQIA+ Middle Grade Novels post! I can’t wait for you to meet one of my favorite middle grade book protagonists. It’s been said before, but… Continue reading
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Camp QUILTBAG by Nicole Melleby and A.J. Sass
When Kai (e/em/eir) and Abigail (she/her/hers) meet in the forest of Camp QUILTBAG, a summer camp for queer kids, neither of them is sure they should be there. Kai just wants to be at home, doing parkour with eir… Continue reading
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The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
Happy summer solstice! ☀ What better book to read on the longest day of the year than the aptly title The Summer Book by Tove Jansson? The Summer Book can be read in one sitting, but I read it slowly… Continue reading
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Where the Lost Ones Go by Akemi Dawn Bowman
When Eliot Katayama’s parents decide to move shortly after her grandmother’s death, Eliot just knows that they’re trying to get her to forget Babung. Just like Babung began to forget her. But Eliot is determined: she will prove that… Continue reading
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