What Lane?
Written by Torrey Maldonado
Contemporary Fiction
The Prom (a novel)
Written by Saundra Mitchell with Bob Martin, Chad Beguelin, and Matthew Sklar The Prom is based on the Broadway hit musical. Set in Edgewater, Indiana, the story centers around Emma, a YouTuber who has a secret girlfriend, Alyssa Greene. Emma decides she wants to go to prom, but the PTA decides that only straight couples …
I Love You So Mochi
Written by Sarah Kuhn What is mochi? This is why I love reading! A new world of Japanese culture, color, words, and stories unfold in this book, including what mochi is! (And mochi is a Japanese dessert that comes in many different flavors.) This story is about Kimi. She has run into a problem trying …
Emmy in the Key of Code
Written by Aimee Lucido Emmy in the Key of Code is a book written in verse and code. Emmy was living a happy life in Wisconsin, when her parents decided to move to San Francisco, a place where everyone looks like they jumped off a magazine cover. At school, Emmy learns to code and makes …
Focused
Written by Alyson Gerber Focused is about the struggles of a teenage girl who is diagnosed with ADHD and how she overcomes some of the challenges associated with her diagnosis. This book was very interesting to me as I noticed some of the habits and problems that Clea went through as being similar to some …
Not If I Can Help It
Written by Carolyn Mackler While Sensory Processing Disorder gives Willa something to cause her to feel out of place and “weird,” she has managed to make a best friend who doesn’t know anything about Willa’s condition. Compartmentalizing and therapy help Willa appear “normal” and allow her to feel like she is more like other people. …
Each Tiny Spark
Written by Pablo Cartaya A Social Studies assignment ignites a spark in a Middle School classroom. As students work on their projects they find themselves in a heated real-life debate over a school district plan to merge students from two different schools. Students start to discover their history, their beliefs, their community, their opinions, and …
Weird Little Robots
Written by Carolyn Crimi, Illustrated by Corinna Luyken In the backyard of the house where Penny Rose recently moved is an old shed, where she tinkers and builds little robots out of lost treasures and broken items she finds around town. What she hasn’t found around her new town are friends. She tells herself it’s …