Tonight is Booked

My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ In David Levithan’s book, Every Day, “A” wakes up in a new body every morning. Without any real identity, gender, or...

My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Through hardship to the stars." (Sepetys, 2017, p.114) Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys is an emotional work of...

My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin is a brilliant, captivating,...

My Rating: ⭐️⭐️ The Cruel Prince by Holly Black plunges into the land of fairies and magic. As a piece of young adult fiction, the story...

My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger is imaginative and quirky as any middle-grade text should be....

My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "I am Outcast." (Anderson, 2011, p.4) Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson is the definition of difficult literature. As...

“I’m a white boy among Mexicans, and a Mexican among white boys.” (De La Peña, 2008, p. 90) My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Mexican Whiteboy is an...

My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️“The word man hit like a pile of rocks falling on George’s skull. It was a hundred times worse than boy, and she...

“Boy, ain’t it a trip where heroes come from” (Crutcher, 2003, p. 280). My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes is a wild...

“I am born in Ohio but the stories of South Carolina already run like rivers through my veins” (Woodson, 2014, p. 2). My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️...

"Think about all the tomorrows of your life" (Myers, 2001, p. 205). My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Walter Dean Myers’ Monster is a beautiful work...

"I guess that's the point of it all. No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have...

My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi, is a surprisingly exhilarating, nonfiction graphic novel. As a memoir, Persepolis...

“I was a regular little kid… But then everything changed” (Bell, 2014, p. 1). My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Cece Bell’s nonfiction graphic novel,...