Seeing Sky-Blue Pink by Candice F. Ransom Maddie is eight and she and her mother have recently moved out to the country to live with her step-father. At first Maddie isn’t so sure she’s going to like living in the country. Her stepfather takes her on hikes through the woods, builds her a tree house [...]
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip M. Hoose A moving and fascinating biography about Claudette Colvin, a woman whose name has been overshadowed by Rosa Parks in the Civil Rights Movement. In the mid-1950s Claudette refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama for a white passenger and was arrested. [...]
Pitch Black by Youme Landowne and Anthony Horton A powerful biographical graphic novel about Anthony, a homeless man, who lives in the subway tunnels under New York City. In the tunnels, he creates amazing works of art. Youme and Anthony begin talking one day in the subway about art. This is an amazing book about [...]
Lunch Lady and the League of Librarians by Jarrett J. Krosoczka When new juvenile graphic novel series come into our library, I like to read them just to see which kids will like them. The Lunch Lady and the League of Librarians is the second in the Lunch Lady graphic novel series for middle grade [...]
I loved Anne of Green Gables! Anne doesn’t find herself getting into as much trouble in this book as she did in Anne of Green Gables, though she does manage to get herself into a few problems once in a while. Anne’s relationship with Marilla deepens as they take in two young children and Anne [...]
I loved the Anne of Green Gables miniseries and read parts of this book as a 6th and 7th grader but never read it all the way through. I decided this year I would read it. It was absolutely wonderful and such an endearing book. I think I appreciated it more as an adult than [...]
Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl Ethan Wate lives in small town Gatlin, South Carolina. He can’t wait to graduate from high school and leave Gatlin, he doesn’t want to become one of the “stuck” people. Not much happens in Gatlin until Ethan begins to be haunted by a girl in his dreams. [...]
Nevermore: A Photobiography of Edgar Allan Poe by Karen Lange A fascinating biography of Edgar Allan Poe. In high school, I was fascinated with Edgar Allan Poe and carried around a copy of his “complete” works with me. I knew he’d had a hard life but learned in this book that a lot of what [...]
