Insta Review: Jellaby by Kean Soo

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram Being the new kid at school can be hard. Being the new kid that has a giant purple monster following her around causing gentle havoc… well, that complicates things a bit. Graphic novels can […]

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Insta Review: Prisoner B-3087, by Alan Gratz

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram So many of my sixth graders recommended this book, I had to pick it up. I've read countless WWII stories over the years, so for a Holocaust novel to stand out, it really has […]

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Insta Review: A Mango-Shaped Space, by Wendy Mass

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram Is a neurological condition like synesthesia – in which two senses are connected and cause involuntary second sensory experiences, like seeing colors while hearing music – a blessing or a curse? I can't even […]

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Insta Review: The Lost Boy, by Greg Ruth

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram Beautiful, detailed illustrations still couldn't help me understand this complex, confusing little book. Between the flashbacks and the sweeping plot changes from panel to panel, I kept checking for missing pages. All pages intact. […]

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Insta Review: HiLo, by Judd Winick

Insta Review gives you a new book recommendation in under a minute. Go ahead, time it! View this post on Instagram HiLo was straight graphic novel goodness. Primary colors, cool looking aliens, tons of onomatopoeia, and explosions everywhere 💥🔥 Parents and teachers rejoice – readers will get vocabulary and even some character development in this […]

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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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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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