Review by Jennifer Irvine
It’s Brooklyn in the late nineties, when rap music can be heard reverberating out of ghetto blasters everywhere. Singer Lauryn Hill reigns supreme, and Jay-Z and Mariah Carey are just getting started on their monster careers. … More Let Me Hear a Rhyme by Tiffany D. Jackson
Review by Emily-Anne Mikos
Romances aren’t the only relationships that are complicated. Childhood friends James and Kat suddenly aren’t friends anymore, and both girls are unsure how to go back to the carefree, easy relationship they once had. … More We Used To Be Friends by Amy Spalding
Review by Juhyun Tony Bae
Middle school is tough. I mean, sure, the school part sucks—the teachers and homework—but you can kinda control your grades by working hard. The real challenge is the other kids. … More Just Jaime by Terri Libenson
Review by Keh Liu
More than anything, Tommy Rawlins wants to be one of the Kens: a trifecta so fiercely popular at Willows High that the mean girls fear them and the straight guys “go gay” for them. … More Kens by Raziel Reid
Review by Jennifer Irvine
Social activist and seventh grader Mya Parsons is well on her way to building her resume as a future employee of the United Nations. She’s the head of the Kids for Social Justice Club (KSJ) at her school and wants to change the world filled with poverty and persecution. … More Mya’s Strategy to Save the World by Tanya Lloyd Kyi
Review by Emily-Anne Mikos
When I first picked up Michigan Vs. The Boys, I thought I knew what kind of story it was going to be. I had read stories about girls struggling in all-boy environments before, and thought I knew what to expect. … More Michigan Vs. The Boys by Carrie S. Allen
Review by Shanleigh Klassen
Life has not been easy for Hartley Staples as of late. It could be in part because his teacher has just assigned the last project of middle school and he has absolutely no clue what to present on. … More The Collected Works of Gretchen Oyster by Cary Fagan
Review by Shyamala Parthasarathy
Seventeen-year-old Lainey is dragged along to a videogame convention with her brother Cody, aka, famous YouTuber Codemeister, to be his roadie. She crosses paths with SamTheBrave, who’s an up-and-coming gamer and YouTuber, and a lonely, bullied, fat kid with a mental illness who finds his safe space online. … More Fan the Flame by Anna Priemaza
Review by Shyamala Parthasarathy
Heather Smith’s Chicken Girl is a book about hiding and confronting both yourself and the world, and accepting that not everything revolves around you. When sixteen-year old Poppy posts a picture of herself dressed as Rosie the Riveter from the era of World War I, she gets what every curvy girl gets on the internet—photoshopped onto sub-Reddit thread ISeeFatPeople that make fun of fat people for existing. … More Chicken Girl by Heather Smith
Review by Emily-Anne Mikos
Deposing Nathan is a novel that reads like a secret: special, emotional, and powerful. As we learn more about Nate and Cam’s intertwined and complicated story, we fall deeper and deeper into their secrets, until all we can do is keep turning page after page. This was one of those books I couldn’t put down. … More Deposing Nathan by Zack Smedley
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