Written by Randy Ribay Click here to read this book in Granite’s Sora When 17-year-old Filipino-American Jay gets news of his cousin Jun’s death, he is shocked. He has a hard time believing his cousin could’ve died because of drugs. Heading to the Philippines to visit family and secretly investigate his cousin’s death, will he …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
I still smile at everyone in the street.Not everyone smiles back, though.When they don’t,I want to say,‘You don’t have to worry about me.I am just a girl who likes movies.’ –Jude, in Jasmine Warga’s Other Words for Home Written by Jasmine Warga This is the engaging story of Jude, a girl who lives in a …
Various Authors, Edited by Bethany C. Morrow This collection of short stories made me laugh, cry, scream, and also want to hide. Every story speaks for an individual experience in the confines of a wider culture. One story is not better than the others because they’re so unique, brimming with overt & covert meaning, and …
Various Authors, Edited by Marieke Nijkamp This book had potential to be a great read. However, I found that I only enjoyed 4-5 of the 13 stories in the book. There were a few that I even skipped, since they just weren’t interesting enough to hold me. The stories I liked, I really liked; they …
Written by Adriana Mather My first impression of this book was not favorable. Why would you send your daughter to a place like the Academy Absconditi without any warnings or instructions? The school seemed barbaric. But I stuck with it and it sucked me into the story. November was not totally unprepared, her parents had …
