Category: All Book Reviews
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Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys: Content Guide
Publication Date: March 2011 Blurb: Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys. Until one night when Soviet officers barge into her home, tearing her family from the comfortable life they’ve known. Separated from her father, forced onto…
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Year of the Reaper by Makiia Lucier: Content Guide
Publication Date: Nov 2021 Blurb: Before an ambush by enemy soldiers, Lord Cassia was an engineer’s apprentice on a mission entrusted by the king. But when plague sweeps over the land, leaving countless dead and devastating the kingdom, even Cas’ title cannot save him from a rotting prison cell and…
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What Once Was Mine by Liz Braswell: Content Guide
Publication Date: Sep 2021 Blurb: Desperate to save the life of their queen and her unborn child, the good people of Corona search for the all-healing Sundrop flower to cure her—but mistakenly acquire the shimmering Moondrop flower instead. Nonetheless it heals the queen, and she delivers a healthy baby girl with hair…
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We Don’t Talk About Carol by Kristen Berry: Content Guide
Publication Date: June 2025 Blurb: In the wake of her grandmother’s passing, Sydney Singleton finds a hidden photograph of a little girl who looks more like Sydney than her own sister, or mother. She soon discovers the mystery girl in the photograph is her aunt, Carol, who was one of…
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Wagons & Wyverns by ZS Diamanti: Content Guide
Publication Date: Aug 2025 Blurb: Zarnikorek spent much of his life in the service of a wicked orc king. When a new rebellion seizes control of the kingdom and overthrows the king, Zarni has no choice but to move back to his quaint hometown in the Ghun-Ra valley. With his…
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Quarter Labyrinth by Victoria McCombs: Content Guide
Publication Date: June 2025 Blurb: EVERY FOUR YEARS, THE LABYRINTH AWAKENS. It shifts location, resets its deadly puzzles, and demands a new game. The rich pay for clues to find it and keys to get in, while the poor fight for entrance. This year, the first to reach the center wins…
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The Disappearing Seat by Heather Elizabeth Holleman: Content Guide
Publication Date: March 2025 Blurb: December normally brings joy to Elita Brown’s heart with the coziness of winter and the anticipation of Christmas. But when Elita compares her life to others, her best friends seem to have it so much better. Margo hosts a fancy holiday dinner party; Joy discovers…
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The Lovely and the Lost by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Publication Date: June 2025 Blurb: Kira Bennett’s earliest memories are of living alone and wild in the woods. She has no idea how long she was on her own or what she had to do to survive, but she remembers the moment that Cady Bennett and one of her search-and-rescue…
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The Wedding People by Alison Espach: Content Guide
Publication Date: July 2024 Blurb: It’s a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She’s immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but…
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If All Else Sails by Emma St. Clair: Content Guide
Publication Date: Aug 2025 Blurb: When Josie’s brother sends her to a random address for their (sometimes) annual Super Summer Sibling Extravaganza, she finds neither siblings nor extravaganzas. Instead, ends up at a run-down cottage on the Northern Neck of Virginia occupied by a hockey player she knows and loathes.…
