Good Comics for Kids
May 6, 2024 by Amanda MacGregor
This great read is a real page-turner and will especially appeal to readers who love family stories and readers who (like me) like their fantasy to be quite grounded in reality. An absolutely smashing read that everyone should pick up this summer!
May 2, 2024 by Amanda MacGregor
In 1999, almost everyone was worried about a computer flaw or bug nicknamed Y2K for year 2000. Now Erin Entrada Kelly has put the subject in a middle grade novel, The First State of Being.
March 7, 2024 by Amanda MacGregor
In The Color of Sound, twelve year old musical prodigy Rosie stumbles upon a shed on her grandparents’ property and, once inside, meets a girl who is, against all odds, a version of her own mother at age twelve.
December 4, 2023 by Amanda MacGregor
This quiet story is full of tension and will keep readers engaged as they watch Kara and Rebecca forge a tight friendship irrespective of time or place. A beautiful story of time travel and compassion.
August 22, 2023 by Amanda MacGregor
If I could leap back in time to interact with my parents as kids, I would 100% take that opportunity. I bet most of us would.
April 20, 2023 by Amanda MacGregor
Given the increasing horrors of climate change and the massive amounts of eco-anxiety young people are carrying, this story about action, attention, and organizing will resonate.
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April 18, 2023 by Amanda MacGregor
An entertaining and, certainly for Sam, illuminating read about life in the 1990s and what it's like to see someone through a different lens.
January 5, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor
A modern-day gay teen time travels back to 1985 and wonders if he can help change the past without changing his future.
September 23, 2021 by Amanda MacGregor
In grade school, we were taught that a story has a beginning, middle, and end, and that the events always progress in a clear, chronological order. Me, I’ve always enjoyed stories that play around with time.
September 21, 2021 by Amanda MacGregor
In Your Life Has Been Delayed, a group of people travel forward twenty-five years, but the end goal is to figure out how to live with what’s happened rather than return to their own time.
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