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The Morris Finalist Blog Tour: An Interview with Isabel Quintero

Welcome to the Morris Finalist Blog Tour, featuring the outstanding 2015 debut authors and their books! In December, YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association, of the American Library...

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Review: Written in the Stars by Aisha Saeed

High school senior Naila’s conservative immigrant parents believe that they offer her ample freedom. She may choose how she wears her hair, she has a non-Pakistani best friend, and they are even...

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The Story of a Survivor: Breath to Breath

My reviews this month focus on small presses and their unique contributions to the publishing ecosystem. These contributions may be in the form of subject matter, point of view, language, or style. As...

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Review: Salt To The Sea by Ruta Sepetys

Last month I reviewed the middle grade novel Pax by Sara Pennypacker.  This month I am reviewing a young adult novel that also explores the effects of war on our world. While Pax explores these effects...

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An Immigrant’s Dilemma in American Street

In Ibi Zoboi’s debut novel, American Street, 16-year-old Fabiola Toussaint has just arrived from Haiti to the United States with her mother, but things have gone terribly wrong. While Customs &...

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Facing a Hard Past Together: A Review of The Stars at Oktober Bend

Alice is fifteen years old, but she believes she will always remain twelve. That was the year two young men from her town in Australia raped and beat her, leaving her in a coma for weeks and with...

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BLOOD WATER PAINT

  “She has to ask herself—and women have asked themselves this question for centuries—would she rather be suffocated slowly for the rest of her life, or die quickly trying to accomplish something?”...

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Life Under Totalitarianism: A Review of The House of One Thousand Eyes

Set in East Germany in 1983, Michelle Barker’s latest novel narrates in third person the story of Lena Altmann, a 17-year-old girl recently released from a mental hospital, confined there because of a...

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Healing From Abuse Through Poetry: A Review of What Girls Know

After debuting in 2009 with her award-winning YA novel Shine Coconut Moon, Neesha Meminger has continued to create powerful and varied books for teens that she has published independently. She began...

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Dreams Against the Odds: A Review of Furia

Growing up in present-day Rosario, Argentina, 17-year-old Camila Hassan lives in the shadow of her older brother’s dreams of fútbol (soccer) greatness while hiding her own from the family. Her...

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