Category: Book/Author Highlight
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Author Highlight: Courtney Sheinmel
I have already talked about one of her books that I have reread several times, Sincerely, but last year I decided to go on a binge of several of her middle grade books. None of them are connected, but each deal with the complexities of families and the young protagonists dealing with big changes in…
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Book Highlight: El Deafo
This graphic novel by Cece Bell is a loose autobiographical account of Cece’s childhood. After an intense bout of menengitis, she lost her hearing in bith ears thus sparking a long journey into the hearing-able/deaf world and the difficulties of growing pains alongside being considered “different” and disabled. Since this autobiographical, Bell obviously has a…
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Book Highlight: I Will Always Write Back
This heartwarming memoir shows the bonds that come from pen pals no matter the distance or difference in their places in life. Caitlin Alifirenka chose the country of Zimbabwe on a whim when it came time for the class pen pal assignment, wanting something different from the usual European countries everyone else knew about. Martin…
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Book Highlight: Channel Kindness
I put this as another book highlight as this nonfiction book is incredible heartwarming and uplifting that I can’t find many flaws to criticize it. I mean how can you critique kids trying to put an end to bullying and raising money for shelters. You can’t. This book was created by Lady Gaga. She and…
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Book Highlights: Bayala: Daughters of the Elf King
This is going to be a short highlight since it’s been awhile since I read this and I don’t have it with me on hand. This book written by Gecko Keck is based on the the Bayala toy line. As one can imagine the toy line with its sparkly fairies and horses caught my eye…
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Book Highlight: Notable Native People
This informative nonfiction book by Cherokee writer and creator, Adrienne Keene educates readers about 50 Native people, past and present who are helping to change the future by renewing and reclaiming their heritage and traditions. As stated in her introduction, she felt the need to write this book in order to reclaim the narrative that…
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Book Highlight: Dangerous Creatures
This spin off duology from Kim Garcia and Margaret Stohl’s Beautiful Creatures quartet follows fan favorites, Wesley “Link” Lincoln and Ridley Duchaness. The adorkable wannabe rocker and the emotionally-stunted bad girl of the Duchaness clan. This is mainly Ridley’s story as you can tell from the beginning that she is fully aware of her Dark…
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Book Highlight: My Most Excellent Year
I put this book under book highlights because I am so biasedly incapable of doing an objective review of this. This book by Steve Kluger is just wholesomely wonderful. Not in the sacherrine way but in a this is how life and people should be. Characters are everything to me when I read, and I…
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Book Highlight: DC Comic Bombshells
Okay so if you are a DC fan and badass women fan, you must read Marguerite Bennet’s amazing series, DC Comic Bombshells! It has badassery, it has feminism, it has women fighting nazis, it has women fighting bigots, it has women fighting in WWII, it has Eleanor Roosevelt as President! Really what could be a…
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Book Highlight: Confessions of a Slightly Neurotic Hitwoman #1-2
I’ll confess first, I thought this was going to be another funny crime comedy book in the vein of Stephanie Plum. While it did have some aspects of that since Maggie’s concussion gave her the magical ability to understand animals, and its all based in NJ, it has a lot more heart. Maggie has issues,…
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