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REVIEW: Sisters by Raina Telgemeier

December 27, 2016 ♦

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Sisters by Raina Telgemeier (Smile Book 2) Published 2014 Raina can’t wait to be a big sister. But once Amara is born, things aren’t quite how she expected them to be. Amara is cute, but she’s also a cranky, grouchy baby, and mostly prefers to play by herself. Their relationship…

REVIEW: Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

December 27, 2016 ♦

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Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson Published 2014 Jacqueline Woodson, one of today’s finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to…

REVIEW: Holes by Louis Sachar

August 20, 2016 ♦

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Holes by Louis Sachar Publication Date: September 2, 2000 Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnatses. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys’ detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending…