by yadude-admin | Jul 4, 2025 | 2024 and 2025 book reviews
☆☆☆☆☆ ★★★★★ (4/5) Jake volunteers at a nursing home because he likes helping people. He also likes avoiding people his own age. Jake has read about kids like himself in books—the weird one, the outsider—and would do anything not to be that kid, including shrink...
by yadude-admin | Jul 4, 2025 | 2024 and 2025 book reviews
☆☆☆☆☆ ★★★★★ (4/5) Author Kate Bornstein bravely and wittily shares personal and unorthodox methods of survival in an often cruel world. A one-of-a-kind guide to staying alive outside the box, Hello, Cruel World is a much-needed unconventional approach to life for...
by yadude-admin | Jul 4, 2025 | 2024 and 2025 book reviews
☆☆☆☆☆ ★★★★★ (4/5) Harry is making food for the unhoused in his grandmother’s food truck when he meets and befriends Stanley, an excellent cook and teacher with only two possessions: a recipe binder and a grumpy dog named Waffles. Then Stanley turns up dead, his...
by Stephanie Candiago | Jul 4, 2025 | 2024 and 2025 book reviews
☆☆☆☆☆ ★★★★★ (5/5) A high school student whose promising basketball career is in jeopardy discovers the triumphs and hardships of basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s life as a social justice advocate in this graphic novel. Monk Travers is the star basketball...
by Stephanie Candiago | May 5, 2025 | 2024 and 2025 book reviews
☆☆☆☆☆ ★★★★★ (5/5) Baron is a computer whiz with a passion for hacking. When the girl of his dreams starts taking an interest in him, he all but short circuits, but when he sees her on a date with another guy, he hacks her school and social media accounts. As jealousy...
by Stephanie Candiago | May 2, 2025 | 2024 and 2025 book reviews
☆☆☆☆☆ ★★★★★ (4/5) In this opposites-attract YA rom-com inspired by the period romantic comedy Emma, a failed romantic gesture puts a damper on a queer teen bookseller’s summer of book matching and matchmaking until a handsome lifeguard and romance skeptic waltzes into...
