Book Recommendations by Lauren Gray https://padlet.com/grayl3/6xv7mp1lti8wl58k en-us 2021-08-22 22:28:00 UTC 2026-02-26 20:05:17 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4d6.png Everything Sad is Untrue grayl3 https://padlet.com/grayl3/6xv7mp1lti8wl58k/wish/1691966600 Realistic Fiction
Daniel is a refugee from Iran, struggling to be accepted in a small town middle school in Oklahoma. This is a heartfelt story of his family's journey to the United States with tales of Persian folklore woven in between. 

If you like The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, check out this book!]]> 2021-08-23 20:30:30 UTC https://padlet.com/grayl3/6xv7mp1lti8wl58k/wish/1691966600 Gone grayl3 https://padlet.com/grayl3/6xv7mp1lti8wl58k/wish/1691966813 Imagine that everyone you know disappears in an instant! Gone is an action-packed, suspenseful sci-fi book about a world with only teenagers. All adults have suddenly vanished, and there is no access to phones, internet, or TV. Teens start to mutate and develop powers that grow stronger and stronger. Sides are chosen, battles begin, and time is running out!

If you like fast-paced, suspenseful books, check this out! ]]> 2021-08-23 20:30:43 UTC https://padlet.com/grayl3/6xv7mp1lti8wl58k/wish/1691966813 Fighting Words grayl3 https://padlet.com/grayl3/6xv7mp1lti8wl58k/wish/1704786739 Della and her sister have had a rough life. This is a story about Della's experience in foster care, making friends, and learning to open up about her difficult past. After she opens up, Della comes to terms with her past trauma and learns to love herself.

Trigger warnings: Trauma, sexual assault]]> 2021-08-30 15:33:04 UTC https://padlet.com/grayl3/6xv7mp1lti8wl58k/wish/1704786739 Maximum Ride (The Angel Experiment series) grayl3 https://padlet.com/grayl3/6xv7mp1lti8wl58k/wish/1734074416 "Maximum Ride and her “flock” — Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman and Angel — are just like ordinary kids, only they have wings and can fly. It may seem like a dream come true to some, but their lives can morph into a living nightmare at any time.

Angel, the youngest member of the flock, is kidnapped and taken back to the “School” where she and the others were experimented on by a crew of whack jobs. Her friends brave a journey to blazing hot Death Valley, CA, to save Angel, but soon enough, they find themselves in yet another nightmare: fighting off the half-human, half-wolf “Erasers” in New York City. Whether in the treetops of Central Park or in the bowels of the Manhattan subway system, Max and her adopted family take the ride of their lives.

Along the way, Max discovers that her purpose is save the world. But can she?"
]]> 2021-09-12 18:52:50 UTC https://padlet.com/grayl3/6xv7mp1lti8wl58k/wish/1734074416 Wink grayl3 https://padlet.com/grayl3/6xv7mp1lti8wl58k/wish/1734075643 "Ross Maloy just wants to be a normal seventh grader. He doesn't want to lose his hair, or wear a weird hat, or deal with the disappearing friends who don't know what to say to "the cancer kid." But with his recent diagnosis of a rare eye cancer, blending in is off the table.

Based on Rob Harrell's real life experience, and packed with comic panels and spot art, this incredibly personal and poignant novel is an unforgettable, heartbreaking, hilarious, and uplifting story of survival and finding the music, magic, and laughter in life's weirdness."]]> 2021-09-12 18:54:12 UTC https://padlet.com/grayl3/6xv7mp1lti8wl58k/wish/1734075643 A Good Girl's Guide to Murder grayl3 https://padlet.com/grayl3/6xv7mp1lti8wl58k/wish/1819738639 The case is closed. Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by Sal Singh. The police know he did it. Everyone in town knows he did it.

But having grown up in the same small town that was consumed by the murder, Pippa Fitz-Amobi isn't so sure. When she chooses the case as the topic for her final year project, she starts to uncover secrets that someone in town desperately wants to stay hidden. And if the real killer is still out there, how far will they go to keep Pip from the truth?]]> 2021-10-15 14:15:24 UTC https://padlet.com/grayl3/6xv7mp1lti8wl58k/wish/1819738639 The Witch Haven grayl3 https://padlet.com/grayl3/6xv7mp1lti8wl58k/wish/1819747638 In 1911 New York City, seventeen-year-old Frances Hallowell spends her days as a seamstress, mourning the mysterious death of her brother months prior. Everything changes when she’s attacked and a man ends up dead at her feet—her scissors in his neck, and she can’t explain how they got there.

Before she can be condemned as a murderess, two cape-wearing nurses arrive to inform her she is deathly ill and ordered to report to Haxahaven Sanitarium. But Frances finds Haxahaven isn’t a sanitarium at all: it’s a school for witches. Within Haxahaven’s glittering walls, Frances finds the sisterhood she craves, but the headmistress warns Frances that magic is dangerous. Frances has no interest in the small, safe magic of her school, and is instead enchanted by Finn, a boy with magic himself who appears in her dreams and tells her he can teach her all she’s been craving to learn, lessons that may bring her closer to discovering what truly happened to her brother.

Frances’s newfound power attracts the attention of the leader of an ancient order who yearns for magical control of Manhattan. And who will stop at nothing to have Frances by his side. Frances must ultimately choose what matters more, justice for her murdered brother and her growing feelings for Finn, or the safety of her city and fellow witches. What price would she pay for power, and what if the truth is more terrible than she ever imagined?]]> 2021-10-15 14:19:16 UTC https://padlet.com/grayl3/6xv7mp1lti8wl58k/wish/1819747638