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Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World
When a tornado strikes town, Ivy’s house is destroyed beyond repair. Feeling invisible and ignored in the aftermath of the storm, Ivy internalizes her trauma. To make matters worse, Ivy’s...
Posted by Book Rex on June 12, 2018
Listen, Slowly
Twelve year-old Mai is not looking forward to summer vacation. Why? Her parents are forcing her to spend it accompanying her grandmother, Ba, to Vietnam, to visit family Mai has...
Posted by Book Rex on May 6, 2018
York: The Shadow Cipher
New York has always been a city shrouded in mystery but there is no mystery greater than the York Cipher, a puzzle consisting of a series of clues left by...
Posted by Book Rex on March 8, 2018
Some Kind of Happiness
Finley’s parents are on the edge of a divorce and she is sent to live with grandparents she has never met. When the woods behind her grandparent’s house resemble her...
Posted by Book Rex on February 23, 2018
One Trick Pony
It’s Earth, and it’s the future: aliens are hunting humans to harvest electricity, and destroying civilization in the process. At the accidental center of the conflict is Strata, a girl...
Posted by Book Rex on January 25, 2018
Tumble & Blue
A family curse, some attempted heroism, and a mythical golden alligator named Munch: How will Blue Montgomery and Tumble Wilson survive summer vacation?
Posted by Book Rex on November 24, 2017
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy is a plot-driven story about friendship in the face of racism, inspired by the true history of Malaga Island. The often dramatic and intense tale has...
Posted by Book Rex on October 5, 2017
The World from Up Here
Wren is an anxious twelve-year-old with many fears, especially of Witch Weatherly, the legendary old woman who lives by herself up on Creeper Mountain. When Wren’s mother is admitted to...
Posted by Adrian L. on September 12, 2017
The Mesmerist
13 year old Jessamine can see people’s thoughts and speak to the dead. To learn about her newfound powers she is shipped off the live with a family friend, in...
Posted by Book Rex on August 11, 2017
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
19 years after the Battle of Hogwarts, Harry, now the Head of Magical Law Enforcement, is struggling to balance his heavy workload and family life, and his scar has mysteriously...
Posted by Book Rex on October 7, 2016
Goodbye Stranger
Goodbye Stranger is the newest book by Rebecca Stead, author of the Newbery Award winning book When You Reach Me. Stead has a talent for creating plots that include an...
Posted by Book Rex on July 27, 2015
Paper Cowboy
I am very much a native of the western suburbs of Chicago. My only homes have been in Downers Grove and Westmont, and I’ve always felt that suburbia was a...
Posted by Adrian L. on May 1, 2015
The Sixty-Eight Rooms
As a very young child, before I can even remember, I apparently caused trouble by playing in my older sister’s dollhouse. Fortunately, I had a mother who understood the undeniable...
Posted by Adrian L. on September 18, 2013