Showing posts from April, 2019

Dumplin' - Julie Murphy

Summary:   Self-proclaimed fat girl Willowdean Dickson (dubbed “Dumplin’” by her former beauty queen mom) has always b…

Bera the One-Headed Troll - Eric Orchard

Summary:  Bera doesn't ask for much in life. She's a solitary, humble troll, tending her island pumpkin patch i…

The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls - Anissa Gray

Summary:  The Mothers  meets  An American Marriage  in this dazzling debut novel about mothers and daughters, identity …

Remarkably You - Pat Zietlow Miller (Illus. Patrice Barton)

Summary:   No matter your volume, your age, or your size, YOU have the power to be a surprise.  You have the know-how. …

Unsheltered - Barbara Kingsolver

Summary:  The   New York Times   bestselling author of   Flight Behavior, The Lacuna,   and   The Poisonwood Bible   an…

The Solitude of Prime Numbers - Paolo Giordano

Summary:   A prime number is a lonely thing.  It can only be divided by itself or by one; it never truly fits with anot…

Utterly Me, Clarice Bean - Lauren Child

Summary:   It's not easy to concentrate at school when mysterious things are happening all around you. In fact, Cla…

Dry - Neal Shusterman & Jarrod Shusterman

Summary:  When the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, one teen is forced to make life and death …

Abel's Island - William Steig

Summary:  Abel's place in his familiar, mouse world has always been secure; he had an allowance from his mother, a …

Lovely, Dark, and Deep - Justina Chen

Summary:  What would you do if the sun became your enemy?  That's exactly what happens to Viola Li after she retur…

El Deafo - Cece Bell

Summary:   Starting at a new school is scary, even more so with a giant hearing aid strapped to your chest! At her old …

We Were the Lucky Ones - Georgia Hunter

Summary:  It is the spring of 1939 and three generations of the Kurc family are doing their best to live normal lives, …

La Princesa and the Pea - Susan Middleton Elya (Author) & Juana Martinez-Neal (Illus)

Summary:    The Princess and the Pea gets a fresh twist in this charming bilingual retelling, winner of the Pura Belpr…