Moo By Sharon Creech After twelve year old protagonist, Reena’s parents both lose their jobs in New York City, she and younger brother, Luke, can’t believe their family’s so-called flight plan: they will move to a small town in Maine…
Category: conflict resolution
Best Frints in the Whole Universe by Antoinette Portis
Best Frints in the Whole Universe By Antoinette Portis Best frints, Yelfred and Omek, live on an obscure and distant planet, Boborp. They have been frints ever since they were little blobbies. Yelfred and Omek do everything together: from…
The Greenlee Project by Amanda M. Thrasher
The Greenlee Project By Amanda M. Thrasher When Clay Monning’s family has to move to a new town in his senior year, his football future looks dim until he meets with his new teammates at Aubrey Marcus High. Although…
Inked, Terre Sempre Saga #2 by Chris Ledbetter
Inked, Terre Sempre Saga #2 Author: Chris Ledbetter Young artist, Cameron Shade is sure of two things: he loves Farrah Spangled more than ever and he will never again open the cursed sketchbook. Last year, his art mentor, Mr.…
WATCH OUT FOR FLYING KIDS Social Justice Award Winner!
Watch Out For Flying Kids by Cynthia Levinson is not just a book about being a kid in a circus and flying through the air, trusting that someone on another trapeze will reach out and catch you, this book is…
Stolen Stash: A Billie B. Mystery by Sally Rippon and Aki Fukuoka
“Stolen Stash: A Billie B. Mystery” By Sally Rippon and Aki Fukuoka Reviewed by Linda Boyden Author Rippon’s early reader series portrays the day-to-day drama inherent in elementary schools. The spunky main character, Billie Brown, her best friend, Jack,…
Dig Too Deep by Amy AllGeyer
Dig Too Deep Written by Amy Allgeyer Reviewed by Linda Boyden Seventeen year old, Liberty Briscoe believes two things: she will never cry and will only refer to her mother, Jamie Briscoe, as MFM, my former mother.…
Bullying Across Cultures: A Review of Falling into the Dragon’s Mouth
Despite efforts to eradicate it, bullying remains a problem in schools, communities, workplaces, and online. Holly Thompson’s debut middle grade novel in verse, Orchards, portrays a seventh grader whose bullying of a former friend contributed to that girl’s suicide, an…
Peace and Understanding Through the Performing Arts: Give Me Wings and Watch Out for Flying Kids!
When young people come together through the performing arts, the effects can be transformational. Working together, they see each other as equals, learn to trust each other, and learn about lives and experience beyond their own. The effects they have…
An interview with Rad American Women A-Z’s Kate Schatz
Kate Schatz’s recent release, Rad American Women A-Z, is an artistic-historic compilation of leftist women whose accomplishments have sometimes been forgotten but who paved the way for women of all kinds to have the rights we have today. What rad…