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Review: All-American Boys by Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely

The Plot:Rashad & Quinn go to the same school.  They know some of the same people, but they're not really friends.  They are both headed to the same Friday night party when everything changes....

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Review: Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers

The Plot:Robin "Birdy" Perry has never left Harlem.  He was born, raised and graduated high school in Harlem.  He just hasn't felt right about anything since 9/11, about all of those people dying so...

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Review: The Crown's Game by Evelyn Skye

The Plot:Vika's father has been training her to manipulate weather and animals since she was a child.  He wants her to become the Imperial Enchantor, the powerful magician who protects the Tsar and...

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Review:  The Memory of Light by Francisco X. Stork

The Plot:Vicky Cruz is lucky to be alive.  She didn't want to be alive, but her Nana found her before all of the pills she took could do their damage.  She should be grateful, but she still just feels...

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Review: When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

The Plot:This is the true memoir of Paul Kalanithi, a brilliant and conscience neurosurgeon who discovered at the age of 36 that he had terminal lung cancer.  Kalanithi had spent his younger years...

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Review: The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken

​The Plot:Just before Ruby's tenth birthday, her classmates start dying.  The few that survive, "Psi" kids, develop special abilities like electrical influence, telekinesis, or mind control.  Ruby...

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Review: Kampung Boy by LAT

 The Plot:Kampung Boy is a graphic memoir about LAT's (at the time he was called Mat) childhood living in his Kampung, a traditional village, in Malaysia.  He writes about the activites of his youth,...

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My 5 Favorite Books of 2016

Ah yes...the time has come once again for me to try to decide on my top books of the year.  As I have mentioned previously, I have a hard time choosing favorites.  How I feel about books changes over...

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Review: The Radius of Us by Marie Marquardt

The Plot:The first time Gretchen sees Phoenix, she has a panic attack.  She doesn't mean to hurt his feelings.  It's just that he looks a lot like someone she's seen before; someone who completely...

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Review: City of Saints & Thieves by Natalie C. Anderson

The Plot:Tina's been plotting her revenge for the last four years.  Her mother was murdered and Tina knows exactly who is responsible.  She joins the Goondas, a gang in her town of Sangui City, Kenya,...

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