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

Jade is one of very few African American students at her private school. She attends on scholarship and doesn't have any close friends at...

How do you reconcile your Muslim culture with also being a typical teenage girl growing up in America? Janna does a pretty great job...

Short, lyrical tale of a private investigator who has a unique talent for finding missing children. Not all of her cases are successful...

Book 2 in the series begins one year after Scythe ends. Rowan is now known as Scythe Lucifer and he's made it his mission to permanently...

Freedom Smith is a gypsy boy with the Hercules gene, which gives him supernatural strength. Usually gypsy boys do not work with the...

Wow. Just wow. Such a great concept that was executed beautifully by Jason Reynolds. When Will's older brother, Shawn, was shot and...

This is unlike most of the other Sonnenblick books I've read. It has the heart and the humor and the family angle, but the content is...

Love love love. This is (surprisingly!) the first book I've read by Jason Reynolds, THE Jason Reynolds, and it was everything I knew it...

Oliver is an average, ordinary kid with parents, an education, and an IQ of over 800. He's rich, ruthless, and wants to be your class...

Genius: The game follows the story of 3 teenagers; Rex Huerta, a prodigy programmer out of california, Tunde Oni, a Self- taught engineer...

In this adventure, we are told the story in the perspective of Starflight, the night wing dragonet. He was captured and sent to the...

I'm not sure how to aptly describe this short creepy tale! Neil Gaiman paints a beautiful word picture of a man returning to his...

The Hunger Games is a dystopian novel set in the time of the future. A country, Panem, is separated into twelve different districts. ...

Thirteen-year-old Bonnie is very protective of her 6-year-old brother, Matt. His dad is long gone, and their mother works hard to keep...

In this sequel to Zeroes, the story continues with the Zeroes trying to focus their powers for good. They have even opened an underground...

Beautiful China rabbit Edward Tulane is loved. His girl, Abilene, takes tremendous care of him. She is sure to dress him every day, sit...

Would you face your darkness in order to receive a miracle? The pilgrims who make their way to Bicho Raro do just such a thing. Their...

Whoa. In the time Tommy Lynn Sells was crossing America murdering so many people, I was growing up. For over twenty years, he spent his...

This psychological thriller will be a hit with teens who want to be right in the middle of the drama and mystery. These were the books I...