Can't Wait Wednesday: Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian

Can't Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme (that will help me remember what to buy for my library) that's hosted by Wishful Endings. It's based off the weekly meme Waiting on Wednesday that was hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine.  Boy I can't wait to read  It’s 1989 in New York City, and for three teens, the world is changing.Reza is an Iranian boy who has just moved to the...

Read more »

Review:The Oddball Chronicles by Michael Williams

Omar Odd is the kid who sits quietly in the back of the classroom with his headphones on. He is the kid who is always picked last for every team he tries to be apart of. He is the kid who's just searching for a little bit of peace and quiet, in a world full of chaotic noise. Omar Odd is a new transfer high school student to the town of Ridgewood. He prefers to live the life of an outsider, but...

Read more »

Can't Wait Wednesday- The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee

Can't Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme (that will help me remember what to buy for my library) that's hosted by Wishful Endings. It's based off the weekly meme Waiting on Wednesday that was hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine.  Boy I can't wait to read  By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta....

Read more »

Review: Dread Nation by Justina Ireland

Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg and Chancellorsville—derailing the War Between the States and changing America forever. In this new nation, safety for all depends on the work of a few, and laws like the Native and Negro Reeducation Act require certain children attend combat schools to learn to put down the dead. But there are also...

Read more »

Readers Advisory: My favorite reads of 2018

So this is more my favorites that any books that have been requested by kids who come into the library. A list of my favorite books that I read this year, it wasn't as many as I'd hoped but I'm SUPER sleepy all the time! They killed my mother.They took our magic.They tried to bury us.Now we rise.Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders...

Read more »

Can't Wait Wednesday: Let's Go Swimmin on Doomsday by Natalie C. Anderson

Can't Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme (that will help me remember what to buy for my library) that's hosted by Wishful Endings. It's based off the weekly meme Waiting on Wednesday that was hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine.  Boy I can't wait to read  When Abdi's family is kidnapped, he's forced to do the unthinkable: become a child soldier with the ruthless jihadi group...

Read more »

Review: All Our Broken Pieces by L.D. Crichton

I was provided a digital copy of this book by Netgalley in exchange for my honest review.  Publication date: May 7, 2019 "You can’t keep two people who are meant to be together apart for long...”Lennon Davis doesn’t believe in much, but she does believe in the security of the number five. If she flicks the bedroom light switch five times, maybe her new L.A. school...

Read more »

Readers Advisory: Something Interesting

So there's a 7th grade girl that comes into the library, she actually just begun volunteering with us. When she comes in she says "Ms. Kym, can you find me something interesting." And she wont give me ANYTHING else to work with. At this point I think she finds it funny because she knows it drives me crazy. I'm finally beginning to understand what she wants that thought I'd help anyone else who has...

Read more »

Can't Wait Wednesday: With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo

Can't Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme (that will help me remember what to buy for my library) that's hosted by Wishful Endings. It's based off the weekly meme Waiting on Wednesday that was hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine.  Boy I can't wait to read  Ever since she got pregnant freshman year, Emoni Santiago’s life has been about making the tough decisions—doing what has...

Read more »

Readers Advisory: I really liked The Hate You Give...

If I had a dime for every time a kid came to me or a kids moms came to me and said, "I really liked The Hate You Give, do you have a book like that?" I actually wouldn't have a as many dimes as you'd think. I actually had a girl tell me she only reads books that are also movies. I'm waiting until the all figure out The Sun is Also a Star is going to be a movie... that's still happening right?? I might...

Read more »

Review: Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

They killed my mother.They took our magic.They tried to bury us.Now we rise.Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zélie’s Reaper mother summoned forth souls.But everything changed the night magic disappeared. Under the orders of a ruthless king, maji were killed, leaving Zélie without a mother and her people without...

Read more »

Readers Advisory: Poetry and Short Stories

Surprise! Poetry. It's kind of forgotten in the world of YA and MG book suggestions except for when a teacher has assigned homework. I few years ago I went to a workshops on Conversational Read with a woman names Diane Frankenstein. She spoke about not only the importance of reading but the importance of the conversation that take place after reading. We librarians know all about that. If a kid wants...

Read more »

Blog Hop: Book Characters at the Bar.

Book Blogger Hop This blog hop is hosted by Coffee Addicted Writer. Question: "You meet an interesting person of the opposite sex at a club. Suddenly they start acting as if  they're a character in a novel you've read and they are firmly convinced thy ARE that character. First, which character is it, and second, how do you react." My Answer: Okay, I'm going to...

Read more »

Can't Wait Wednesday- Watch us Rise by Renee Watson and Ellen Hagan

Can't Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme (that will help me remember what to buy for my library) that's hosted by Wishful Endings. It's based off the weekly meme Waiting on Wednesday that was hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine.  Boy I can't wait to read  Jasmine and Chelsea are sick of the way women are treated even at their progressive NYC high school, so they decide to...

Read more »

Blog Hop: Taking Notes

Book Blogger Hop This blog hop is hosted by Coffee Addicted Writer. Question: "Do you takes notes about the book you're reading as you read?" My Answer: Nope, even if I should. I Just finished up on a book committee that lasted a year and I didn't take one note even though it would have helped me if I had. I've also been slowly working on another project with a friend...

Read more »

Fresh Ink Edited by Lamar Giles

In partnership with We Need Diverse Books, thirteen of the most recognizable, diverse authors come together in this remarkable YA anthology featuring ten short stories, a graphic short story, and a one-act play from Walter Dean Myers never before in-print.Careful--you are holding fresh ink. And not hot-off-the-press, still-drying-in-your-hands ink. Instead, you are holding twelve stories...

Read more »

Can't Wait Wednesday: I Wish You All The Best by Mason Deaver

Can't Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme (that will help me remember what to buy for my library) that's hosted by Wishful Endings. It's based off the weekly meme Waiting on Wednesday that was hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine.  Boy I can't wait to read  When Ben De Backer comes out to their parents as nonbinary, they're thrown out of their house and forced to move in with...

Read more »

Waiting on Wednesday: The Wicked King by Holly Black

Can't Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme (that will help me remember what to buy for my library) that's hosted by Wishful Endings. It's based off the weekly meme Waiting on Wednesday that was hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine.  Boy I can't wait to read  You must be strong enough to strike and strike and strike again without tiring.The first lesson is to make yourself strong.After...

Read more »

I'M BACK AND READY TO READ!!!!

I think I've mentioned this from time to time, but for the last year I've been on a book award committee. Honestly I didn't count up how many books we read but it was somewhere in the realm of 80. I was so glad to be chosen but OMG it took up so much of my time. Every three months or so we got another list of books to read. Every list was a little longer than the last and while there were diverse...

Read more »

Review: Song of the Current by Sarah Tolcser

 Caroline Oresteia is destined for the river. For generations, her family has been called by the river god, who has guided their wherries on countless voyages throughout the Riverlands. At seventeen, Caro has spent years listening to the water, ready to meet her fate. But the river god hasn’t spoken her name yet—and if he hasn’t by now, there’s a chance he never will.Caro decides to...

Read more »