Hello Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly
Sometimes life calls on you even when you don’t raise your hand.
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Glitch by Laura Martin
Glitch by Laura Martin is delightful. The author did a great job creating two main characters who had depth and exhibited both likable and annoying traits. I loved learning new tidbits about history.
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The Goose Girl By Shannon Hale
Right now I’d like all my troubles to stand in front of me in a straight line, and one by one I’d give each a black eye.
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Banner In The Sky By James Ramsey Ullman
It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp.
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The Cay by Theodore Taylor
Friendship and courage between a young white boy and an elderly black man remind us that friendship is not only available to us if we are open to it, but that we need each other to survive.
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Little Britches by Ralph Moody
A man’s character is like his house. If he tears boards off his house and burns them to keep himself warm and comfortable, his house soon becomes a ruin. If he tells lies to be able to do the things he shouldn’t do but wants to, his character will soon become a ruin. A man with a ruined character is a shame on the face of the earth.
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Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk
But then a better thought occurred, and this was the one I carried away with me that day: If my life was to be just a single note in an endless symphony, how could I not sound it out for as long and as loudly as I could?
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The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
How many feelings can one heart hold?… Infinite, Luna thought. The way the universe is infinite. It is light and dark and endless motion; it is space and time, and space within space, and time within time. And she knew: there is no limit to what the heart can carry.
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The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
There was once a boy named Milo who didn’t know what to do with himself–not just sometimes, but always.
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Greenglass House by Kate Milford
There is a right way to do things and a wrong way, if you’re going to run a hotel in a smugglers’ town.
