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By Hena Khan

This was a nice read about a girl who has a beautiful voice but is too scared to showcase her talent. But really the story was more about changing and growing and making new friends.

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By Cynthia Lord

This was a nice quick read the showed the struggle of how hard it is to make friends at this age, but especially when your brother is Autistic. Ironically she befriends another boy with a disability and realizes how to accept her own brother's flaws while also learning more about real friendships.

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Edited by Ellen Oh
This is a nice collection of short stories about diverse characters.

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By John David Anderson
This was a great story about what happens in a school when cell phones become banned and students resort to using sticky notes. But it's reallly more so about being a kid in middle school and dealing with bullies, fitting in, gaining and losing friends. It was an odd read in that it felt like a bunch of connected little stories versus one big story. But over all I enjoyed reading it!

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By Jacqueline Woodson
Jaqueline Woodson's poetry is always beautiful. In this autobiographical novel in verse she tells her story of growing up in the 60s. This was a collection of beautiful poetry however I feel as though this book was written more for adults than children because children may have a hard time connecting and relating to her memories.

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By Dorian Cirrone
This was a sweet story about a girl who doesn't want summer to end. But when she gets her wish she has to keep reliving the last day over and over again. Will she ever be able to move on to the future? This was a nice summer story that takes place on the Jersey shore.

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By Ellie Terry
What a great book. It's a novel in verse so it was a quick read but parts made me tear up a bit. Calli June's mom relationship troubles leaves Calli and her mom moving from place to place. It's hard enough constantly being the new kid, but when you add the fact that Calli has Tourette's syndrome on top of it, it's unbearable. This was a great read and provided a lot of insight into living a life with Tourette's.

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By Dan Gemeinhart
This may be a new favorite author of mine. This was a suspenseful action packed book that boys will especially like however girls will too. Jonathan is sent to a school for troubled boys. However this school is on an island and isn't a school at all. The kids there are treated like prisoners by terrible people.But one day by a freak accident all of the adults die and the boys are left on their he island alone. What seems fun at first turns out to be worse than before.

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Laurel Snyder
This book was a great read about 9 orphans living on an island. Every year a boat arrives bringing a new  orphan. At that time the eldest orphan must leave the island and travel on the boat to who knows where. Only 9 can stay on the island or something terrible will happen. But what if the eldest doesn't want to leave?