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The Double Life of Danny Day by Mike Thayer

The Double Life of Danny Day by Mike Thayer

A boy who lives every day twice uses his ability to bring down bullies at his new school. My name is Danny Day, and I live every day twice. The first time, it’s a “discard day.” It’s kind of like a practice run. At the end of the day, I go to bed, wake up, and poof everything gets reset, everything except my memory, that […]

June 15, 2021 / 0 Comments
Displaced by Dean Hughes

Displaced by Dean Hughes

Two Syrian refugee teens trying to make a living on the street corners of Beirut must decide how far they’re willing to go to make a home for their family in an unwelcoming country. Thirteen-year-old Hadi Toma and his family are displaced. At least that’s what the Lebanese government calls them and the thousands of other Syrian refugees that have flooded into Beirut. But as […]

September 8, 2020 / 0 Comments
The Paper Daughters of Chinatown by Heather B.  Moore

The Paper Daughters of Chinatown by Heather B. Moore

When Donaldina Cameron arrives at the Occidental Mission Home for Girls in 1895, she intends to teach sewing skills to young Chinese women immigrants, but, within days, she discovers that the job is much more complicated than perfect stitches and even hems. San Francisco has a dark side, one where a powerful underground organization–the criminal tong–brings Chinese young women to America to sell them as […]

September 1, 2020 / 0 Comments
Waiting for Fitz by Spencer Hyde

Waiting for Fitz by Spencer Hyde

Addie loves nothing more than curling up on the couch with her dog, Duck, and watching The Great British Baking Show with her mom. It’s one of the few things that can help her relax when her OCD kicks into overdrive. She counts everything. All the time. She can’t stop. Rituals and rhythms. It’s exhausting. When Fitz was diagnosed with schizophrenia, he named the voices […]

March 5, 2019 / 0 Comments
Just Friends by Elana Johnson

Just Friends by Elana Johnson

Mitch can’t keep running from his problems, and he’ll have to face both Jade and Holly—and decide which one of them to put into the “just friends” category. High school senior, Mitch Houser, is thrilled to have multiple colleges recruiting him because of his record-breaking times on the track, but Mitch hasn’t told anyone the real reason he’s been setting records. He’s trying to outrun […]

December 13, 2017 / 0 Comments
Love Blind by Jolene Perry & C. Desir

Love Blind by Jolene Perry & C. Desir

Shy high schooler Kyle Jamieson and Hailey Bosler, a musician with degenerative blindness, team up to tackle a bucket list of greatest fears in this compelling novel that explores what it means to take risks. It starts with a list of fears. Stupid things really. Things that Hailey shouldn’t worry about, wouldn’t worry about if she didn’t wake up every morning with the world a […]

May 10, 2016 / 0 Comments
The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner

The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner

Dill has had to wrestle with vipers his whole life—at home, as the only son of a Pentecostal minister who urges him to handle poisonous rattlesnakes, and at school, where he faces down bullies who target him for his father’s extreme faith and very public fall from grace. The only antidote to all this venom is his friendship with fellow outcasts Travis and Lydia. But […]

March 10, 2016 / 0 Comments
Lay Me Down by Tamara Hart Heiner

Lay Me Down by Tamara Hart Heiner

Life is more than just breathing. Kylee Mansfield knows what it is to be alone. Her dad left when she was seven, and her mother remarried an abusive alcoholic. Kylee finds ways to escape reality, usually by substituting one pain for another. Things take a deadly turn when a jagged cut shows up on her arm, and she doesn’t know where it came from. She […]

January 27, 2016 / 1 Comment