By Bethany Duff
Published August 22, 2015
There are special moments where you connect with another living being. When no words are spoken you can understand each other. Some moments you can physically feel, as you run with your dog and your...
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Ellie Woody, Illustrated by Sanobar Shariff
Published August 22, 2015
I didn’t dare breathe. The air smelled of fish—dirty, rotten fish, and the slightest of sea salt. In the distance I saw a long boardwalk out to sea. Dark, musty, wooden, it gave off the...
By Genevieve Jacobs
Published August 22, 2015
I spread my sides, flattening like Play-Doh, And close my eyes as light spreads its fingers over my back. My blood heats and spills warmth into my tail and toes. Hidden prey sings the song...
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Lily Strauss, Illustrated by Jia Qi Liu
Published August 22, 2015
Timing is a funny thing. Some religious figures see it as fate, when in reality, it’s chance. The world doesn’t care about any one person enough to stop its continuously moving clock and allow what...
By Holly Goldberg Sloan, Reviewed by Isabel Folger
Published August 22, 2015
Counting by 7s, by Holly Goldberg Sloan; Dial Books for Young Readers: New York, 2013; $16.99 Twelve-year-old Willow Chance, who is fascinated by and knowledgeable about plants and medical conditions, has enough to deal with...
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Mathilde Fox-Smith, Illustrated by Anika Knudson
Published August 22, 2015
By Mathilde Fox-Smith Illustrated by Anika Knudson He had decided earlier that he wouldn’t do it tonight. This nagging annoyed him profoundly. Though now that he was already plastered against a wall, inches from the swerving...
By Izzah Khairi
Published August 22, 2015
Night knits the mountains close and hazy lines shoot high. A half moon rising low and dim quietly moans a tune; the wind is at a howl; the trees are a wobbling drum. The lake...
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Connor Gorton, Illustrated by Nahome Yohannes
Published August 22, 2015
Kevin jumped out of bed and pulled at the curtains to open them. He glanced outside and groaned. The sun was not yet over the horizon, but snow was falling very heavily and the wind...
By Sonya Hartnett, Reviewed by Nicole Cooper
Published August 22, 2015
The Children of the King, by Sonya Hartnett; Candlewick Press: Somerville, Massachusetts, 2014; $16.99 It is too dangerous to stay in London. The threat of bombs falling overhead is constant, and now that France has...
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Ennya Papastoitsis, Illustrated by Onalee Higgins
Published August 22, 2015
Since the beginning of time itself, my mom, my sister, and I have baked chocolate-chip cookies. They’re not amazing or perfect and definitely not round, but to us they’re as good as paradise. We bake...
