CREEK CRITIQUES

Kent State - May 4, 1970. The day the US government shot and killed 4 unarmed protestors on the Indiana college campus. I listened to...

Elise has decided that silence is the only way she can make it through the day. She keeps tallies of how many words she says each day...

Mimi LOVES science, especially space. It's 1969 and the US is about to have astronauts walking on the moon, and Mimi is thrilled. But,...

The Bennet family invites Mr. Bingley over for dinner and hits it off with the oldest Bennet daughter named Jane. Mr. Bingley has a...

Oksana and Valentina's fathers both work at the nuclear power station when one of the reactors collapses and sets the building on fire,...

Fifth graders Valentina, a Jew, and Oksana, her bully, are living nearby when the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant happens...

In typical Gratz fashion, he has taken an important topic and made it relatable for kids. It is a difficult book to follow with three...

Petra lives in a lighthouse next to the sea during the first year of the second world war. She has a very courageous older sister named...

This book is about this quiet girl who made a friend with a colored girl. This book was set in 1958 in Little Rock Arkansas and were...

Allies is about the fictional characters, based off of real people, fighting on d-day in world war ll. The story of Dee; a soldier from...

The Surrender Tree, a story written by Margarita Engle, is a very under rated book. I pick up this and could not put it down. It is about...

Nominated for the 2020 Intermediate Sequoyah book award in Oklahoma, this novel follows the stories of two young women who are forced to...

After several of my friends said this was the best book they'd ever read, I put myself on the wait list for it at the public library....

This 2018 Sequoyah Intermediate winner was on my radar but I didn't realize how much I'd actually enjoy it until I gave it a try! Ada is...

When teenaged Molly steals a copy of Jane Eyre from the public library, she's assigned 50 hours of community service to repay her debt to...

When Arthur sees the neighborhood junk man walking down the street in his dead father's hat, he snaps. He throws a brick at the man and...

This novel alternates between present-day and 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma. In present-day, teenage Rowan is living with her black mother and...

I'm not sure how to adequately summarize this book. I read it because it has been chosen for the 2018-2019 Intermediate Sequoyah...

"Little Man," as he is affectionately known by his housekeeper, takes on his best friend's paper route for the month of July while his...