Insta Review: Orbiting Jupiter, by Gary D. Schmidt

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram Fresh out of juvie, Joseph is a quiet, stoic 14 year old with a lot of dark history – and a newborn daughter he's never met. Seems clear cut, right? Bad kid, bad choices, […]

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Insta Review: The Terrible Two by Jory John and Mac Barnett

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram 😍😍 With fun illustrations, quality writing, and sassy humor that kids will go nuts over, The Terrible Two hits it out of the park. If the adventures of Tom Sawyer and Diary of a […]

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Insta Review: Six Kids and a Stuffed Cat, by Gary Paulsen

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram As I puzzled my way through Six Kids and a Stuffed Cat, I couldn't shake one overwhelming question: has Gary Paulsen ever actually had a conversation with a middle schooler? I'm not exactly an […]

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Insta Review: The Green Glass Sea, by Ellen Klages

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram If I were reviewing just the second half of this novel, it would get full marks. Deep, meaningful friendship, forged in a believable way! Drama! Science! Enriching historical references that even this history-challenged reader […]

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Insta Review: Breadcrumbs, by Anne Ursu

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram Breadcrumbs is the book I would end up with if I attempted to write a novel – and that's not a good thing. Meandering and about double the necessary length, the author includes beautiful […]

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Insta Review: Under the Egg, by Lara Marx Fitzgerald

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram I love a good mystery, but Under the Egg was a little too mysterious. As in…the unsolved case of who are these characters, and why don't they have more development?? When Theo's beloved grandfather […]

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Insta Review: Fortunately, the Milk, by Neil Gaiman

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram Devilishly silly and utterly pointless in the best way. Dad leaves the kids, goes out to grab some milk, and returns hours later with a full book of insane stories about why he is […]

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Insta Review: Absolutely Truly, by Heathen Vogel Frederick

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram Absolutely Truly had a lot of working components. A main character struggling with growing up, physically and emotionally; the chaos of a large family; moving to a new place as a teen and navigating […]

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Insta Review: The Key to Extraordinary, by Natalie Lloyd

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram 'Neath the stars of Blackbird Hollowwww…. 🎤 The catchy tunes from The Key to Extraordinary are STILL in my head. Emma's favorite place in the world is her family's graveyard cafe in the little […]

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