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

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

This hilarious tale begins with Angus the Brownie fulfilling his family's ancient curse to serve the youngest female member of the...

The Boy in the Black Suit is about a boy named Matt who lost his mother. She died of breast cancer. Since his father can't handle the...

I love the tagline of this book - "Magic so wondrous you have to believe it to see it." In the case of Circus Mirandus, it is true. If...

While this book does throw in some stereotypical middle grade problems - first crush, best friends who grow estranged, sibling rivalry-...

Centering around fifteen-year-old genius Josie and her quest to define and understand love, the book is fairly predictable. Josie is a...

Let me start by saying this is a good book. The reason I'm giving it two stars is that I've already read it. It was called Cinder! The...

Sweet, sad story of a twelve-year-old girl who loses her carefree mother to an accident and is sent to live with a grandmother she's...

In this novel in verse, author Kwame Alexander introduces us to twin brothers who are the stars of their 8th grade basketball team. Of...