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Hope and Other Punch Lines
Everyone knows "Baby Hope", the girl in an iconic photo taken on 9/11. In the photo, she's a toddler in a tiara holding a red balloon as...

Suzanne Severns
May 21, 20211 min read


Dear Martin
Justyce McAllister is at the top of his class at an elite private school, hoping to be accepted to an ivy league college, and trying to...

Suzanne Severns
May 16, 20211 min read


Golden Arm
Laz Weathers is a senior and the best pitcher in the history of his inner city school when the new principal decides to cut the baseball...

Suzanne Severns
May 9, 20211 min read


In Another Life
Chloe was just three-years-old when she was adopted, but she always felt like she was part of a loving family, that is, until her...

Suzanne Severns
May 2, 20211 min read


The Shadows Between Us
Alessandra has lofty ambitions. She aims to become the queen of the six kingdoms by marrying the shadow king and then killing him, so she...

Suzanne Severns
Apr 26, 20211 min read


Clap When You Land
In this exquisite novel-in-verse from Elizabeth Acevedo, two sisters separated by thousands of miles learn of each other's existence and...

Suzanne Severns
Apr 18, 20211 min read


You Owe Me a Murder
When Kim applied to a two-week program abroad in London, it was because she wanted to be with her boyfriend Connor, but when he dumps...

Suzanne Severns
Apr 11, 20211 min read


Miles Morales: Spider-Man
Miles is pretty much your average sixteen-year-old, hanging out with his best friend, crushing on a beautiful girl, and trying to do his...

Suzanne Severns
Apr 4, 20211 min read


Three Things I Know Are True
Liv's big brother, Jonah, is only seventeen when he accidentally shoots himself at his friend Clay's house. Now Jonah is completely...

Suzanne Severns
Mar 28, 20211 min read


The Liar's Daughter
Seventeen-year-old Piper has been raised in a cult, but she doesn't realize it. For all she knows, her parents created their isolated...

Suzanne Severns
Mar 21, 20211 min read


Dear Edward
Twelve-year-old Edward Adler is traveling across the U.S. with his parents and older brother to California when their plane crashes....

Suzanne Severns
Mar 7, 20211 min read


If These Wings Could Fly
The crows have overrun Auburn, Pennsylvania. For senior high school student Leighton Barnes and her two younger sisters, the crows offer...

Suzanne Severns
Feb 28, 20211 min read


One of Us is Lying
Five students are serving detention when one of them, Simon, suddenly dies from anaphylactic shock and dies. It seems someone laced his...

Suzanne Severns
Feb 21, 20211 min read


Burn Our Bodies Down
Seventeen-year-old Margot doesn't know anything about her mother, a woman whose past is a secret and who is both negligent and...

Suzanne Severns
Feb 14, 20211 min read


The Kingdom
In this award-winning science fiction mystery by Jess Rothenberg, Ana is a fantasist, a half-human/half-android entertainer working at...

Suzanne Severns
Feb 7, 20211 min read


Grown
When seventeen-year-old Enchanted Jones attends an audition for a B.E.T. singing show, rap sensation Korey Fields takes her under his...

Suzanne Severns
Jan 31, 20211 min read


Born a Crime
In this award-winning autobiography the host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central, Trevor Noah talks about being born to a black mother...

Suzanne Severns
Jan 24, 20211 min read


Truly Devious
Stevie Bell, an amateur crime sleuth who enjoys reading detective stories and listening to true crime podcasts, is a new student at the...

Suzanne Severns
Jan 17, 20211 min read


Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
In this adaptation of Ibram X. Kendi's national bestseller, Stamped from the Beginning, Jason Reynolds examines the roots of slavery in...

Suzanne Severns
Jan 8, 20211 min read


Carry On
Simon Snow aka "the chosen one" is about to start his final year of magic school. He's completely inept with a wand, was just dumped by...

Suzanne Severns
Jan 1, 20211 min read
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