Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram Loved this story of a tween finding and embracing her quirky, tomboy self through roller derby. Roller Girl was funny, empowering, and left me feeling inspired. Boy-crazy ballerina or badass roller babe, this story […]

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it!  View this post on Instagram Toto, I don't think we're on Market Street anymore. The first book of this series from @mattdelapena has natural disasters, biological warfare, romance, espionage… you name it. With all of that packed into one […]

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram Difficult, emotional, and important. All American Boys was unique to me for two reasons: first, the African American teen victim of police brutality survives and gets to tell his own story; second, the obligatory […]

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram My Kindle is great for traveling, but it's not so great for graphic novels. I'm not sure if it was the forced black and white format or the fact that I was a band […]

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram As an educator, I'm a sucker for stories about teachers changing lives. But this story didn't resonate the way I expected; it felt bland. I liked Mr. T and rooted for his recovery, but […]

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram So many children's authors write as if kids don't 'get it': sweet, simple, shallow. But Kate DiCamillo knows that young readers understand far more than most give them credit for. They feel loss, grief, […]

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram Sorry team, we're going belly-up on this dystopian story. I try to give novels at least 100 pages to grab me, but by page 101 of Legend, I was eager to move on to […]

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram Oh guys. I'm a mess. I loved this book so much, I don't know what to do with myself now that it's over. Doug is an underdog that you root for, fall in love […]

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram This Side of Home was complex and wonderful and difficult and so, so beautiful. Maya and Nikki are identical twins working towards high school graduation, but issues like gentrification of their neighborhood, cultural tensions […]

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram This book had brains and courage, but I'm not sure it had enough heart to keep me reading. Once the fun of seeing Oz from a dark new angle wore off, I found myself […]