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kirkusreviews.com /1 week ago

ELEVEN KINDS OF BLUE

Middle schooler Margot Stafford has known her share of trouble; her mother is unemployed and struggles with depression. But things have been OK lately. Then Margot learns she’ll ne...

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bookriot.com /1 week ago

Where the Extraordinary is Ordinary

The supernatural is mundane in these must-read magical realism and fabulism novels, from historical fantasy inspired by Taino mythology to anticolonial spec fic.

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yourstory.com /5 days ago

5 Novels that blur the line between fiction and reality

Discover five mind-bending novels that blur the line between fiction and reality, challenging perception, memory, identity, and truth.

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middleweb.com /1 month ago

Writing a Novel Helped My Career Make Sense

This year Jay Wamsted fulfilled a dream shared by many teachers – he finished and published a YA novel. "My career isn’t all that unique," he says. "The lessons I’ve learned, the s...

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newyorker.com /3 weeks ago

“The Readers,” by Ben Lerner

It would be one thing if I wrote fiction about Cromwell or aliens, but, given that my protagonists resemble me, how could I know you weren’t mixing us up?

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webwire.com /3 weeks ago

Scientist and Storyteller Joseph Mahar Brings Imagination and Suspense to Life in “What If…, Too”

Joseph Ingerson Mahar's latest book, “What If…, Too,” presents seven compelling stories that explore extraordinary possibilities, unsettling scenarios, and the unpredictable cons...

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kirkusreviews.com /4 weeks ago

JUST ASK ELSIE

Elsie Parker gets to spend eight weeks learning about important topics like the difference between sex and gender, but at school, her fifth grade classmates will get their puberty...

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miramichireader.ca /4 days ago

Briarwood by Natalie Hyde

Part Harry Potter, part Nancy Drew with a steampunk aesthetic, and weaving in elements of women in STEM, Briarwood is a typical middle school novel about what it feels like to be t...

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newsroom.co.nz /1 month ago

Short story: Family friendly, by Jemma Richardson

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kirkusreviews.com /1 month ago

ABSOLUTELY NO BODY PARTS

Fourteen-year-old friends Nick Yarrowby and Khenan Kimetto are looking for a way to earn enough money to fly to Boston to see the Bruins hockey team play, since their single parent...

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49thshelf.com /2 weeks ago

Speculative Fiction: The Unreal is Not Escapist

Speculation about Canada’s lack of speculative fiction can be put to rest. Together, these works showcase how richly the genre thrives across the landscape of Canadian literature b...

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teenlibrariantoolbox.com /1 week ago

The Artsy Kid: Finding Fierceness Beneath the Surface, a guest post by Katherine Wolff

All fiction is a kind of laboratory, a place where readers can inhabit a new personality inside the pages and where they can pursue adventures big and small.

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dailygood.org /1 month ago

I'll Just Write One

At ten, Reva Agrawal made an impatient bargain with her mother: if she couldn't have a new book every week, she would simply write one herself. Five years later, that stubborn logi...

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kirkusreviews.com /3 weeks ago

LEARNING

Set in New York City, poet Bush’s novella follows Courtney, a teacher at a private preschool, over the course of one workday. Fresh off a “light nervous breakdown,” Courtney is con...

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49thshelf.com /1 month ago

Notes from a Children's Librarian: Imagination

Our Children's Librarian columnist, Julie Booker, brings us a new view from the stacks every month.*****...

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kirkusreviews.com /3 weeks ago

ROSETOWN FOREVER

It’s May 1974 in Rosetown, Indiana, and Flora’s nearly finished with fifth grade. She looks back on the year’s heartbreaks and joys: She and her friend Yury mourned the closure of...

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kirkusreviews.com /1 month ago

COWBOY JIM

Jim, a pale-skinned youngster, always wanted to be a cowboy—often wearing a Stetson hat, trying on his dad’s boots, sitting on unhorsed saddles, and pretending to ride. As he grows...

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redeemedreader.com /1 week ago

*The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen

Jessica dreams of running again, even though she just lost part of her right leg in a tragic car wreck. The post *The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen appeared first on Redeem...

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redeemedreader.com /1 month ago

Roar by Varsha Bajaj

Ro can't wait to hear a real tiger roar when he gets to visit his grandfather's tiger preserve. But the preserve is under threat.... The post Roar by Varsha Bajaj appeared first on...

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