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Posted on December 4, 2019 by Jennifer Sniadecki
I was reading some new Net Galley titles tonight, and I came across Chris Barton’s upcoming, All of a Sudden and Forever: Help and Healing After the Oklahoma City Bombing (due February 2020). I felt compelled to write, since the Oklahoma City bombing happened…
Category: Book ReviewsTags: Book Reviews, Chris Barton
Posted on November 10, 2019 by Jennifer Sniadecki
“Moon is everything Christine isn’t.” The back cover describes this new middle grade graphic novel to a tee. When you’re young, you naturally compare yourself to the people around you, and that’s exactly what happens in this book. Christine is reluctant to meet Moon,…
Category: Book ReviewsTags: Book Reviews, friendship stories, Jen Wang
Posted on October 22, 2019 by Jennifer Sniadecki
Gae Polisner’s new novel, Jack Kerouac Is Dead to Me, is due in April 2020 from Wednesday Books, but you should pre-order this now. JL Markham’s teen years seem typical, and yet this main character grabs the reader’s attention and holds on for dear…
Category: Book ReviewsTags: Book Reviews, Gae Polisner, YA Books
Posted on August 8, 2019 by Jennifer Sniadecki
I was honored to receive an advanced reader copy of Give and Take by Elly Swartz (thank you, #booksojourn and Macmillan Publishers) and I was inspired! If you haven’t yet, pre-order this phenomenal middle grade novel. You won’t be disappointed. About Give and Take:…
Category: Book ReviewsTags: Book Reviews, Elly Swartz, middle-grade novels
Posted on July 19, 2019 by Jennifer Sniadecki
Recommended for ages 8-12, Astro-Nuts is the newest creation by Jon Scieszka , illustrated by Steven Weinberg. In this first book in a planned trilogy, Mission One: The Plant Planet, NNASA (Not-NASA) charges four mutant animals hiding in Mt. Rushmore to travel to outer…
Category: Book ReviewsTags: Book Reviews, Jon Scieszka, science reading
Posted on July 18, 2019 by Jennifer Sniadecki
Nikki Grimes is one of my favorite writers, gathering beautiful words in her notebooks over the years, which are now mixed with memories in Ordinary Hazards (coming 10/08/19 — thank you for providing ARCs, WordSong/Highlights). The content is dark, yet hopeful. The words are…
Category: Book ReviewsTags: Book Reviews, Nikki Grimes
Posted on July 17, 2019 by Jennifer Sniadecki
What does it take to avoid the school bully? Fifth grader and innovative thinker, Bell Kirby, has an elaborate plan that works, until the day Daelynn Gower, the new student with rainbow hair and crazy attire, arrives. Back in 4th grade,…
Category: Book ReviewsTags: Book Reviews, Jake Burt, middle-grade novels
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