Merci Suárez Can’t Dance
Written by Meg Medina
Middle Schools Fiction
Ruby in the Sky
Written by Jeanne Zulick Ferruolo, Illustrated by Twelve year old Ruby comes to a new town with her mother, and she has secrets. What happened to her father? What does her mother do that embarrasses her? It’s much easier for her to remain “silent and invisible” than to make new friends. It has always been …
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 …
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 …