Reading & Reviewing Diverse YA Books
Children of Owl by Darcie Little Badger illustrated by Abigail Rajunov Summary via Publisher: Maisie: hasn’t gotten her life back on track since her best friend died and she saw Owl, harbinger of ill tidings and doom. Joel: Streaming prodigy […] Read More
Title: It’s Only Dancing Author: Jasmine Guillory Genres: Romance/Contemporary Pages: 320 Publisher: Scholastic Review Copy: ARC from publisher Availability: Available Oct. 6th Summary: It’s the summer before her senior year of high school and Kat (Kitty to her family) planned […] Read More
Title: The Fast Track Author: Angelica Cheng Genres: Contemporary, Sports, Romance Pages: 329 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Review Copy: Review copy provided by publisher Availability: Available now Summary: Justine Kwong has always dreamed of becoming a […] Read More
One Word, Six Letters by Adib Khorram Publisher summary: Freshmen Dayton and Farshid couldn’t be more different—or so it seems. When Dayton takes a dare and shouts the f-slur at a visiting author during a school event, it sets off […] Read More
Six new books that are on our release calendar were published yesterday! Which ones will you be checking out? The Gods Will Sing Our Song by Autumn Krause Delacorte Press A divine favor can change everything. 1942. War rumbles across […] Read More
In the past few weeks there has been a lot of discussion about the literacy crisis in America. It all started with the article in the Atlantic titled “The End of Reading is Here” by Rose Horowitch that had a […] Read More
