Fitz’s Faves: Wynter’s review of Okay for Now, by Gary D. Schmidt

I give Okay for Now four stars because this book has great meaning and lesson. It pulls the reader in and never lets them out even if they’re not reading. It has passion, tragedy, love, and it makes the impossible possible. This Student Book Review was written by Wynter, a St. Anne’s-Belfield School student. Wynter […]

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Insta Review: The Seventh Most Important Thing, by Shelley Pearsall

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram Will I ever get tired of troubled teen redemption stories? NOPE 👌🏽 The Seventh Most Important Thing had me 😯 from the first sentence. Just like the book's hero, author Shelley Pearsall makes the […]

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Fitz’s Faves: Ford’s review of Divergent, by Veronica Roth

I gave this book 4 1/2 stars because it has lots of action and adventure, and it is also really cool how all of Chicago is split into five factions. I would suggest it to people who liked The Hunger Games series. This Student Book Review was written by Ford, a St. Anne’s-Belfield School student. […]

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Insta Review: Twerp, by Mark Goldblatt

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram "A good kid. A bad mistake." 😍 Right up my alley. Twerp follows Julian as he clumsily navigates the peer pressure, budding romance, and other challenges of the teen years – and makes some […]

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Insta Review: Love that Dog, by Sharon Creech

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram Confession: I read this book during a sixth grade DEAR session, and my sniffling disrupted the group. Sharon Creech nails it in every way with this pensive, doleful tale in free form poetry. Animal […]

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Insta Review: Echo, by Pam Muñoz Ryan

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram Some books just sing in audiobook form – and Echo is one of them. An enchanted harmonica links three different children each facing unique challenges in their own time and place. Music, engaging characters, […]

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Insta Review: A Tangle of Knots, by Lisa Graff

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram Could this be the same Lisa Graff that wrote Lost in the Sun?! A Tangle of Knots is unrecognizable in comparison. So cute it borders on twee, this sugary sweet story follows Cady as […]

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Insta Review: Goodbye Stranger by Rebecca Stead

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram It must be hard for a young writer to follow a smash hit first novel. So I was rooting for Rebecca Stead when I started Goodbye Stranger – but the cheering didn't last long. […]

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