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A Tribute to Bobby Hutton

A Tribute to Bobby Hutton Emma, 9 I didn’t know much about Bobby Hutton until recently, when I read about ...

100 Days of Sunlight, Reviewed by Nora, 13

What are five things you take for granted? I could start by assuming that you take your senses for granted ...
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Red and Blue

Red and Blue are the colors we built a country from,   Red like the blood we spilled for freedom ...

All We Can Do Is Wait, Reviewed by Sita, 13

All We Can Do Is Wait by Richard Lawson is an incredibly moving story about life, death, and the gray ...
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Apples, a poem by Mason, 9

Apples A sweet fruit, round like a ball. Pieces split with a slice of a knife. Pushing and shoving, hands ...

The Twits, Reviewed by Petros Korahais, 8

The Twits by Roald Dahl  is a disgusting, creepy, repulsive book full of gross descriptions of stinky people who are ...

The Girl Who Drank the Moon, Reviewed by Olivia, 10

When you pick up a fantasy book, you may think, “ugh, another book about the typical fantasy story.” This is ...

The Whale Child, Reviewed by Ava, 10

If I ever had to swim beside a whale, I would be very nervous. This book taught me that whales ...

The Lost Girl, Reviewed by Pragnya, 12

The Lost Girl is the kind of book you’d want to write but thought you wouldn’t do well enough. Luckily, ...

Enna Burning, Reviewed by Julia, 13

Enna Burning is the second book in the enchanting series The Books of Bayern by Shannon Hale. In the first ...

King of Shadows, Reviewed by Olivia, 10

“Th’art a true actor, sprite.” Starring Nat Field, King of Shadows is written by Susan Cooper. Yes, maybe it is ...

The Unteachables, Reviewed by Pragnya, 12

The Unteachables is the perfect book for this quarantine, especially because it reminds us of those glorious days at school ...