12/31/2023 0 Comments Rat swimming in nyc floodThis book is AMAZING, beautiful, moving, and life-changing! 12-year-old Willow is a genius with limited social skills (it’s never stated but we might guess she’s got Aspergers) whose adopted parents are killed in a car crash leaving her so confused without her parents’ support. This is a coming-of-age, gripping story about a boy who is just trying to figure out life like most boys at age 12. He writes about missing his twin when his twin, Jordan, gets a girlfriend about getting in trouble when he hits Jordan in the face with a basketball and about watching his father as his heart fails. Basketball player and twin Josh narrates his life in quarters, just like the game he plays. It’s an honest, eye-opening story that reveals the plight of many homeless children in India and yet, finds a way to be hopeful, too.īecause this is written in verse, this is a fast read but packs a big punch. Ultimately, it is the kindness of her new “family” that helps her to see more than misery in the world. And what happens next almost destroys Viji. Their lives are hard but made easier by the two boys, their new “brothers.” When Rukku gets a terrible cough and fever, so does one of the brothers. Viji tells how the two of them ran away from an abusive father to the big city where they met two friendly brothers and lived with them under a bridge, scrabbling to survive by collecting trash. Set in India, Viji writes this story as letters to you, her little sister Rukku who has intellectual disabilities. Stunning writing with a loveable main character makes this a middle grade book that you won’t want to miss. Ultimately, Shoshana learns (with a little help from her sister Libke) to be proud of being Jewish, even when others don’t accept her. And Shoshana wants to fit in so much that she agrees to participate in the Christmas activities. Shoshana, her mom, and her siblings flee Jewish persecution in Ukraine in 1905 for North Dakota to a mud house on the plains with her father and brother. But being Jewish isn’t always accepted, even in this new country. Fortunately, a persistent classmate Violet Rey (also his crush) helps Charlie follow the clues to find out what happened to his parents - and discover what it has to do with La Mano Peluda and the prophesied Morphling who is meant to save the world. But it’s when he grows HORNS, the WINGS, and meets the MYTHS in real life - like calacas, mukis, and El Justo Juez - that he’s really freaked out. What a great book for 7th graders!Ĭharlie Hernandez and the League of Shadows by Ryan CalejoĬharlie Hernández’s house burns down, his parents go missing, and he is sent to a foster home. They soon learn the sinister truth of the rule-centric community and are determined to escape. Riley and her unpleasant cousin, Alfie, wake up on an island with overly friendly, rule-centered people including half-animal people. Don’t miss this wildly inventive, exciting, and thought-provoking adventure. Riley, her dad, her cousin, and her aunt are sailing in the Bermuda Triangle when they’re attacked by a leviathan.
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