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Sickness is surrounding us all including the library. We apologize for the absences in last week’s 2 min booktalk, we were under the weather.
Introduces the efforts of student volunteers who traveled to Mississippi in 1964 to encourage African Americans to exercise their right to vote, and discusses the violent resistance they faced from supporters of segregation.
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline WoodsonThe author shares her childhood memories and reveals the first sparks that ignited her writing career in free-verse poems about growing up in the North and South
Looks at the life of Little League Baseball pitcher Mo’ne Davis.
A fictionalized look at the last twenty years of Thomas Jefferson’s life at Monticello through the eyes of three of his slaves, two of whom were his sons by his slave, Sally Hemings.
Free Black Man by Judith FradinRecounts the experiences of Solomon Northup, an African American man who was kidnapped into slavery and suffered through twelve years of bondage before being rescued from the Louisiana cotton plantation by friends from New York.
This week we celebrated National Bittersweet Chocolate day. Here are 5 YA romances that are equal parts bitter and sweet, best enjoyed with your favourite chocolate. We Are Okay Alone in an empty dorm during a snowstorm, Marin waits for her best friend Mabel to visit. When Mabel arrives, Marin will be forced to face […]
via Putting the YA in FRIYAY: 5 Bittersweet YA Romances — Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers
Genre YA Romance Format Audiobook Description Signed, sealed, delivered… While spacing out in chemistry class, Lily scribbles some of her favorite song lyrics onto her desk. The next day, she finds that someone has continued the lyrics on the desk and added a message to her. Intrigue! Soon, Lily and her anonymous pen pal are […]
via P.S. I Like You by Kasie West — Bewitched Reader Book Blog
Welcome to the City of Sin. Not even Las Vegas is as sinful and dark as New Reynes, but Enne must travel there to look for her missing mother. Enne is a well polished sophisticated lady and has no idea what to expect from this gang infested city but she has to find her mother. She will soon learn that her mother is full of secrets that she sheltered her form her whole life and she isn’t the person Enne knew her to be. She meets the most notorious card dealer in the city, Levi. Continue reading “Ace of Shades: REVIEW”
Hey everyone! Needless to say, I was SO pumped to read this collaboration by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera, who are two of my favourite authors in YA. It turned out that this was such a fun and adorable read- I inhaled the book in just a few days. I am excited to share this […]
via What If It’s Us // An adorable YA contemporary romance — Sophie’s Corner
Between Shades of Gray. Written by Ruta Sepetys What is this book about? (The synopsis from Goodreads) 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 […]
