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Cinder, Reviewed by Aditi, 13

Growing up, I don’t think there was anything I enjoyed more than a classic fairy tale, and, of course, watching ...
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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 ...

Review of “The Ickabog” by J.K. Rowling, by Anya Geist, 13

Review of The Ickabog by J.K. Rowling Anya Geist, 13 All over the world, children are stuck in quarantine. And, ...

Wonder, Reviewed by Marilena, 9

Ever wonder how it feels to watch the movie of a book you just finished reading? The movie and book ...

The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey, Reviewed by Daniel, 10

A dangerous scavenger hunt across the world cannot be accomplished by one person. In the book The Mysterious Benedict Society ...

Heat, Reviewed by Daniel, 10

Being an orphan is no easy feat. In the book Heat by Mike Lupica, Michael, the main character, and his ...

Little Women, Reviewed by Ashley, 13

Living in New England in the nineteenth century around the time of the civil war is the seemingly perfect, amiable ...

Thankfulness: a review of “Where the Mountain Meets the Moon” by Grace Lin, by Daniel Zhu, 10

I have heard the following thought experiment countless times, albeit from different people: you can save your family (including you), ...