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Happy & Sad & Everything True by Alex ThayerMiddle School Aladdin/Simon 272 pp.11/24 9781665955249 $17.99e-book ed. 9781665955263 $10.99Dee is struggling in sixth grade: she hears other girls gossiping about her appearance, sees her single mom flirting with her gym teacher, and feels like her best friend is ignoring her. Thayer...
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Review of We Are Not Alone
We Are Not Alone by Katryn BuryMiddle School Harper/HarperCollins 320 pp.10/24 9780063337411 $19.99e-book ed. 9780063337435 $9.99As Sam Kepler Greyson heads back to school for the first time after going through chemo, he’s still worried about his illness—now in remission—and processing the loss of his best friend, Oscar, who died from...
The Last Dragon on Mars [Dragonships]by Scott ReintgenIntermediate, Middle School Aladdin/Simon 384 pp.10/24 9781665946513 $18.99e-book ed. 9781665946537 $10.99Mars-born Lunar Jones is a salvager on the dying planet, trying to find enough old technology to sell to keep his fellow orphans fed. When rival scrappers attempt to kill him to steal...
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Review of Ain’t It Funny
Ain’t It Funny by Margaret GurevichIntermediate, Middle School Penguin Workshop 240 pp.10/24 9780593659434 $17.99e-book ed. 9780593659458 $10.99Sixth grader Maya doesn’t know when the anxious thoughts and the “hot-hot-hot” feeling started, but ever since her dad moved out, they seem to have gotten worse. Her germaphobia makes school a challenge and...
Keeper Chance and the Conundrum of Chaos [Evil Villains International League]by Alex EvanovichMiddle School, High School Simon 336 pp.10/24 9781665960045 $18.99e-book ed. 9781665960069 $10.99“The man known as Chaos had entered Peachmont High School through a back door,” looking to recruit sixteen-year-old junior Keeper Chance for the Evil Villains International League,...
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Review of Like a Curse
Like a Curse by Elle McNicollIntermediate Random 304 pp.10/24 9780593649527 $17.99e-book ed. 9780593649541 $10.99Ramya (Like a Charm, rev. 11/23) has been sent to Loch Ness to study witchcraft with her aunt, but when her cousin Marley arrives, they learn that Portia, a siren who previously broke up Ramya’s family, has...
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Review of Turning Twelve
Turning Twelve by Kathryn Ormsbee; illus. by Molly Brooks; color by Marta TodeschiniIntermediate, Middle School Random 240 pp.10/24 9780593650066 $21.99Library ed. 9780593650080 $24.99Paper ed. 9780593650073 $13.99e-book ed. 9780593650097 $8.99In this follow-up to graphic novel Growing Pangs (rev. 7/22), newly twelve-year-old Katie navigates the turbulence of puberty, which she likens to...
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Review of The Empty Place
The Empty Place by Olivia A. ColeIntermediate, Middle School Little, Brown 320 pp.11/24 9780316449427 $16.99e-book ed. 9780316449533 $9.99Henry Lightfoot has always been the “earthworm” to her father’s “social butterfly,” more interested in making art at home than joining him on far-reaching adventures. But after he wanders out of Quinvandel Forest...
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Review of The Glass Girl
The Glass Girl by Kathleen GlasgowHigh School Delacorte 464 pp.10/24 9780525708087 $21.99Library ed. 9780525708094 $24.99e-book ed. 9780525708100 $10.99Bella deals with what feels like a million pressures: family, schoolwork, a breakup with a boyfriend who said she was “too much,” and grief over the recent loss of her grandmother. Without a...
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