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This fall, I’m starting a new chapter in my career. Let’s call it “The Forty-Something First-Year High School Teacher.” I’m almost finished with my teacher certification course work as well […]
B.B. Alson’s Amari and the Night Brothers (2021)
B.B. Alson’s Amari and the Night Brothers (Supernatural Investigations, 1) is a fast-paced, high-stakes fantasy novel sure to delight middle-grade readers. I appreciated the myriad moral dilemmas, real-world social critiques, […]
Moses and Gangi’s Kingston and the Magician’s Lost and Found (2021)
With so many amazing nominations for the Cybils Awards’ Middle-Grade Speculative Fiction category, some of our favorite books are bound to be left off the shortlist. Rucker Moses and Theo […]
Kyle Lukoff’s Too Bright to See (2021)
I don’t know if the title of Kyle Lukoff’s debut middle-grade novel Too Bright to See (2021) was inspired by Lesléa Newman’s Too Far Away to Touch (1998), but I […]
Alyssa Bermudez’s Big Apple Diaries (2021)
Book review by Raise Them Righteous guest blogger Eleanor Hamilton Warren. Eleanor is a 9 year-old reader living in Dallas, TX. This is her first book review for the blog. […]
Ilyasah Shabazz & Renée Watson’s Betty Before X (2018)
Ilyasah Shabazz & Renée Watson’s Betty Before X reads like the labor of love it clearly is. Both intimate and deliberately political, Shabazz and Watson humanize a larger than life […]
Kate Moore’s The Radium Girls (2020)
I just finished Kate Moore’s young reader’s edition of The Radium Girls. Wow! I was emotionally engaged from beginning to end. Moore tells the story of hundreds of young women […]
Adiba Jaigirdar’s The Henna Wars (2020)
Adiba Jaigirdar’s The Henna Wars may be my favorite young adult love story of all time. Jaigirdar has created a smart, awkward, completely believable tale of two teen girls falling […]
Shaunta Grimes’ Center of Gravity (2020)
Shaunta Grimes’ Center of Gravity (2020) is steeped with references to 1980s culture and aesthetics. Tessa, the novels twelve-year-old protagonist, is losing everything: her mother, her best friend, even her […]
Cynthia L. Copeland’s Cub (2019)
Cynthia L. Copeland’s new middle-grade graphic memoir, Cub, is an intimate and atmospheric coming-of-age story that follows 12-year-old Cindy as she navigators the hormonal halls of middle-school and an informal […]
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