Book Summaries and Trailers

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Ashlords

by Scott Reintgen

The Best At It

by Maulik Pancholy

Beyond the Bright Sea

by Lauren Wolk

Bloom

by Kenneth Oppel

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

by William Kamkwamba & Bryan Mealer

The Bridge Home

by Padma Venkatraman

Freewater

by Amina Luqman-Dawson

Ghost

by Jason Reynolds

A Good Kind of Trouble

by Lisa Moore Ramee

I Must Betray You

by Ruta Sepetys

I Will Always Write Back

by Caitlin Alifirenka & Martin Ganda

The Lost Year

by Katherine Marsh

A novel in verse

Maybe He Just Likes You

by Barbara Dee

Mexikid

by Pedro Martin

Paper Things

by Jennifer Richard Jacobson

Roller Girl

by Victoria Jamieson

The Screaming Staircase

by Jonathan Stroud

A little scary!

Simon Sort of Says

by Erin Bow

Song for a Whale

by Lynne Kelly

A Wish in the Dark

by Christina Soontornvat

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