TRACES OF SULFUR Blade Keeper Academy, #1 by Madeline Freeman Laurealinde Publishing LLC Young Adult Paranormal 228 pages I’m not who they think I am. If they learn the truth, I’ll pay with my life.Blakethorne Academy is the premier training ground for warriors. Every person here will one day be a member of the […]
Review: The Map From Here To There
This coming of age novel centres on the last year of high school for Paige Hancock and her friends. Paige seems to have it all mapped out – she has a part-time job she loves at the local cinema, the perfect boyfriend in Max and her close friends. Everything seems so perfect, Paige doesn’t want […]
Review: None Shall Sleep
Emma Lewis and Travis Bell are both teenagers who have had survived encounters with serial killers. They are therefore recruited by the FBI to interview a convicted teenaged serial killer in order to gain some clues about an ongoing investigation into another serial killer, who is targeting teenagers. The jailed killer, Simon Gutmunsson, is a […]
Review: Challenger Deep
Caden Bosch lives a double life – seemingly a normal adolescent boy, quirky, smart and fun, living in suburbia, juggling the demands of friends, schoolwork and leisure. Yet he is simultaneously working as the artist in residence on board a ship with the mission to explore the deepest part of the ocean, the Challenger Deep […]
Review: The Austen Girls
The Austen Girls is a fictional story featuring real life people, written into a plot inspired by the times. Writer and presenter, Lucy Worsley (you might have seen her on TV), is the Chief Curator at Britain’s Historic Royal Palaces and has many historical facts and experiences to draw upon. In The Austen Girls, she’s […]
The Itsy Bitsy Spyder by Apeksha Rao
Itsy Bitsy Spyder The Spyders #0.5 by Apeksha Rao Young Adult / Espionage 15th to 17th August What do you do when your mother feels that you don’t trust her? If you’re Samira Joshi, and your mother is an elite spy who works for RAW, the first thing you do is … hide the knives. […]
Dan Unmasked by Chris Negron
Dan Sumner, 13, and Nate Templeton, 12, have been best friends since elementary school and their two favorite things in the world are playing baseball for the Mira Giants and comic books, but not just any comic books. They are devoted readers of Captain Nexus. In fact, each month, on the day the newest issue […]
The Good for Nothings by Daniel Banas!
THE GOOD FOR NOTHINGS by Danielle Banas Swoon Reads August 4, 2020 YA Science Fiction 320 pages They’re only good at being bad. Cora Saros is just trying her best to join the family business of theft and intergalactic smuggling. Unfortunately, she’s a total disaster. After landing herself in prison following […]
A High Five for Glenn Burke by Phil Bildner
Twelve-year-old Silas Wade loves baseball. He could play it, talk about, think about it, and probably even dream about it 24/7. And his baseball hero is Glenn Burke, a black major leaguer who played for the Los Angeles Dodgers beginning in 1976 and who, during some tense moments on the final weekend of the […]
Review: Dating Makes Perfect by Pintip Dunn
DATING MAKES PERFECT by Pintip Dunn Entangled Teen YA Romance 400 pages COMING… AUGUST 18th!!! The Tech sisters don’t date in high school. Not because they’re not asked. Not because they’re not interested. Not even because no one can pronounce their long, Thai last name—hence the shortened, awkward moniker. But simply because they’re […]
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Published by Little Brown Books for Young Readers Summary: In this “remix” of Ibram Kendi’s award-winning book Stamped from the Beginning, Jason Reynolds tells the history of racism in America, going back to the fifteenth century and continuing to (almost) the present day. Focusing on people such as Cotton Mather, Thomas Jefferson, William Jennings Bryan, and Angela […]