In The Boy Who Killed Grant Parker, Luke moves from the city to the country to live with his Baptist pastor father. He is soon labeled a troublemaker and earns the disdain of the town golden boy Grant Parker. But when Grant gets injured, Luke goes from zero to hero, and the bullied becomes the […]
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Alex Gino’s debut George is a gem. This middle grade book is a timely, touching story about a young transgender girl named Melissa who is ready to share her true self with the world. Fourth grader George knows that she’s a girl, and is ready but scared to tell her secret. She reads young girls […]
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I listened to Jason Reynolds‘ debut book When I Was the Greatest earlier this year and was eager to dive into his next book The Boy in the Black Suit. In The Boy in the Black Suit we meet Brooklynite Matt Miller on his first day back at high school following his mother’s death. This […]
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In Rites of Passage, Sam is one of the first girls to attend the exclusive Denmark Military Academy, and the guys are none too pleased to have her. Sam McKenna has military pedigree – her father is a respected Lieutenant Colonel, her brother Jonathan is the cadet colonel at DMA, and her late brother Amos […]
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When I was a teen I used to gobble up horror films and Stephen King books until the wee hours of the night, but not so much anymore. When I heard about The Merciless I had to give it a shot though- there is something so thrilling about scary movies/books in the summertime. The pentagram […]
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It’s a shame that the first time this book got my attention is during banned book week, when both this title and Eleanor & Park were in the news. Regardless, I’m happy that the book challenge put Yaqui on my radar so I could read this unforgettable book about a bullied girl. Yaqui Delgado Wants […]
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