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Babe Didrikson Zaharias: The Making of a Champion, by Russell Freedman; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers: Boston, 2014; $10.99 Russell Freedman’s biography, Babe Didrikson Zaharias: The Making of a Champion, is a fascinating...

There Will Be Bears

By Ryan Gebhart, Reviewed by Jeffrey Huang

Published August 14, 2015

I Am Malala

By Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb, Reviewed by Neha Gopal

Published August 12, 2015

I Am Malala, by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb; Little, Brown and Company: New York, 2013; $26 Would you stand up for what you believe in, even if it meant losing your life? With the...

Half a World Away

By Cynthia Kadohata, Reviewed by Kobe Simon

Published July 31, 2015

The Running Dream

By Wendelin Van Draanen, Reviewed by Lauren Vanden Bosch

Published July 29, 2015

The Running Dream, by Wendelin Van Draanen; Knopf Books for Young Readers: New York, 2011; $16.99 Have you ever seen a book on the shelf and known it was the perfect book for you even...

Counting by 7s

Review Published August 22, 2015 By Holly Goldberg Sloan, Reviewed by Isabel Folger

Counting by 7s, by Holly Goldberg Sloan; Dial Books for Young Readers: New York, 2013; $16.99 Twelve-year-old Willow Chance, who is fascinated by and knowledgeable about plants and medical conditions, has enough to deal with starting a new middle school with no friends and being accused of cheating on an important test before her parents die in a car crash.

Kira-Kira

Review Published August 19, 2015 By Cynthia Kadohata, Reviewed by Abhirupa Dasgupta

Kira-Kira, by Cynthia Kadohata; Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing: New York, 2006; $6.99 Once in a blue moon, you come upon a book which you believe is the pure embodiment of perfection. You read the novel in what seems like a single breath, and by the time you have read the last perfectly tailored word, you would be just as happy to read the entire thing again, if only to experie...

The Silver Donkey

Review Published August 19, 2015 By Sonya Hartnett, Reviewed by Myla Indigaro

The Silver Donkey, by Sonya Hartnett; Candlewick Press: Somerville, Massachusetts, 2014; $8.99 "As they approached the hollow where the man lay, they were aggrieved to spy him sitting up. Clearly he was not dead. And although they had crept as quietly as they could, and kept themselves hidden behind tree trunks and weeds, the sharp-eared man must have heard—for he looked up from the fallen leave...

Willow

Review Published August 17, 2015 By Tonya Cherie Hegamin, Reviewed by Jessica McGaughey

Willow, by Tonya Cherie Hegamin; Candlewick Press: Somerville, Massachusetts, 2014; $16.99 The first thing I noticed about this book was the fact that Willow is both the main character’s name and the title. I liked this because I sometimes refer to a book by the protagonist’s name and not the title. Willow is about a fifteen-year-old black girl who lives in Maryland in the late 1840s.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias: The Making of a Champion

Review Published August 17, 2015 By Russell Freedman, Reviewed by Ben Dauphinais

There Will Be Bears

Review Published August 14, 2015 By Ryan Gebhart, Reviewed by Jeffrey Huang

There Will Be Bears, by Ryan Gebhart; Candlewick Press: Somerville, Massachusetts, 2014; $16.99 When I first saw the cover of this book, I wasn’t very interested, so I put it away. A few days later, I had nothing else to do, so I started reading. I was hooked. I could not put it down before I was done. Nothing but trouble finds Tyson!

I Am Malala

Review Published August 12, 2015 By Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb, Reviewed by Neha Gopal

I Am Malala, by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb; Little, Brown and Company: New York, 2013; $26 Would you stand up for what you believe in, even if it meant losing your life? With the rise of the Taliban, people of Afghanistan and Pakistan faced difficult times. Life was especially hard for girls. There were frequent whipping, beating, and verbal abuse.

Half a World Away

Review Published July 31, 2015 By Cynthia Kadohata, Reviewed by Kobe Simon

Half a World Away, by Cynthia Kadohata; Atheneum Books for Young Readers: New York, 2014; $16.99 Electricity: It creates lightning, turns on the TV, generates power. A microscopic current. Something that we cannot see, that connects us all. The concept fascinates twelve-year-old Jaden. But what he can’t understand is this: he doesn’t feel connected to anyone. So he lights fires. Hoards food.

The Running Dream

Review Published July 29, 2015 By Wendelin Van Draanen, Reviewed by Lauren Vanden Bosch

The Running Dream, by Wendelin Van Draanen; Knopf Books for Young Readers: New York, 2011; $16.99 Have you ever seen a book on the shelf and known it was the perfect book for you even before you turned the first page? The Running Dream was like that for me. The moment I saw it on the shelf I knew instantly that I had to read it.

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