Insta Review: Drowned City, by Don Brown

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram One of the most powerful graphic novels I have ever seen. Don Brown takes an already complicated, terrifying, and gruesome story and amps up the volume in Drowned City, a graphic novel detailing the events […]

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Insta Review: Peanut, by Ayun Halliday and Paul Hoppe

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram A creative take on the difficulty of middle school; making new friends, finding your first relationships, and starting at a new school. Sadie is a new student at a school where everyone already knows everyone, […]

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Insta Review: Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram 👩🏽💕👱🏼 Girl meets boy. Girl falls in love with boy. Girl and boy share electric romantic moments. Conflict occurs. Hearts break. It’s all pretty familiar stuff – except in Everything, Everything, girl has an added […]

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Insta Review: Fuzzy Mud, by Louis Sachar

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram My mother in law loves to tell this story: When my husband was a kid, he carried around a briefcase, followed the stock market, and read The Hot Zone over and over again (some of […]

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Insta Review: Lily and Dunkin, by Donna Gephart

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram As the country becomes more and more involved with issues like gender equality, mental health, and human rights, it’s important that we educate children and give them a chance to learn about the different sides […]

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Insta Review: Secret Coders, by Gene Luen Yang and Mike Holmes

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram Computer programming + comic books = 😍💕 The first in a new innovative graphic novel series from Gene Luen Yang and Mike Holmes, Secret Coders Book 1 combines graphic novels, puzzles, and computer science concepts […]

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Insta Review: All the Broken Pieces, by Anne E. Burg

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram What is it about a novel in verse that just kicks you in the stomach? At ten years old, Matt was airlifted away from his mother and little brother in Vietnam and taken to America […]

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Insta Review: Sprinkle with Murder, by Jen McKinlay

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram Notice the creased cover and folded pages of the paperback in the photo? Inside, many pages are taped together or hanging on by a thread. This is what a truly loved book looks like! One […]

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Insta Review: Counting Thyme by Melanie Conklin

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram One sentence into the plot description of Counting Thyme, and my sixth graders were pushing and shoving to get in line for this novel. Thyme loves her home in San Diego – the sunshine, her […]

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Insta Review: We are Growing! by Laurie Keller

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram This book made me the HAPPIEST! My kindergarteners were out of their minds excited when the opening pages to We Are Growing showed Elephant and Piggie praising it as one of their favorite reads. And […]

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