By: Chris Lynch Rate: good Richard Riley Moncrief is obsessed with baseball. He doesn’t understand how anyone can not like baseball, and he thinks all boys are destined to at least know how to play baseball, if not be a…
By: Katherine Rundell Rate: good For fans of survival stories, The Explorer by Katherine Rundell is perfect. Fred, Con, Lila and her five-year-old brother Max are on their way back to England from Manaus when their plane crashes over the…
By: Lauren Wolk Rate: good In this touching story by Lauren Wolk, author of Wolf Hollow, a twelve-year-old-girl named Crow was washed up on one of the Elizabeth Islands on a skiff as an infant. Osh, the inhabitant of the…
By: Lauren Wolk Rate: good Annabelle McBride is a twelve-year-old girl during World War II who lives on a farm with her parents, grandparents, Aunt Lily, and her younger brothers James and Henry. She at first is nervous around Toby,…
By: Christian McKay Heidicker Rate: very good This book for young children is wonderful, and it describes friendship. Seven little foxes sit around an old storyteller and listen to her terrifying stories. And here they are: Mia is a young…
By: Jasmine Warga Rate: in between good and very good During the Syrian Revolution, a girl named Jude is forced to move with her pregnant mother from her home in Syria to Cincinnati, America. She misses her revolutionary brother and…
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