Reading The Lincoln Highway is like taking a road trip in 1954 with Emmett, newly released from an undeserved incarceration in juvenile detention, and his eight-year-old precocious brother, Billy, as they attempt to journey west for a fresh start.
Amor Towles is a master of storytelling, creating a memorable cast of characters with hints of heroes and legends. The obstacles that Emmett encounters—some tragic, some comical—threaten his goal to provide a promising future for Billy and test his resolve to do what’s right. It’s a can’t-put-it-down, stay-in-your-mind novel that has become one of my favorite-evers.
The high stakes and tension in Firekeeper’s Daughter had me on the edge of my seat in the same way as The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas.
Daunis Fontaine, an Ojibwe teenager, becomes an informant for the FBI to find the source of a recreational drug that threatens her tribal community. I love teens cast into reluctant heroine roles and felt like I was getting an inside glimpse into the cultural identity of a Native teen from a reliable narrator.
Even though I’d consider this a crime thriller, the prose is so poetic that I copied many beautiful phrases into my book journal.
A PRINTZ MEDAL WINNER! A MORRIS AWARD WINNER! AN AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH LITERATURE AWARD YA HONOR BOOK!
A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB YA PICK
An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller
Soon to be adapted at Netflix for TV with President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama's production company, Higher Ground.
“One of this year's most buzzed about young adult novels.” ―Good Morning America
A TIME Magazine Best YA Book of All Time Selection Amazon's Best YA Book of 2021 So Far (June 2021) A 2021 Kids' Indie Next List Selection An Entertainment Weekly Most Anticipated Books of…
As a lover of lighthouses, I was immediately drawn
to Swan Light’s book cover. But what hooked me was discovering it’s a
tale told by two protagonists with two timelines—lighthouse keeper Silvestre
Swan, as he tried to save Swan Light from the sea in 1913, and Mari Adams, the marine
archeologist hired to dig for it in 2014.
Don’t plan on putting this down. It
will consume you until you’ve finished it. Before reading it, I knew
nothing about competitive shipwreck hunting or the Newfoundland coast. However, due to the amazing research in this debut novel, I’m now fascinated by shipwreck
hunting and hope to visit Eastern Canada next year.
A sweeping, emotional tale of hope and perseverance, Swan Light weaves together the stories of two people separated by a century but connected by family, purpose, and one extraordinary lighthouse.
1913. Eighty-three-year-old Silvestre Swan has dedicated his life to the care of his Newfoundland lighthouse. His petition to relocate Swan Light from its precarious cliff's edge is going unheard by town patriarch Cort Roland-that is, until a terrible storm brings an unlikely ally into Swan's life. But is it too late for the stone lighthouse?
2014. Marine archaeologist Mari Adams's attempts to fund her search for the notorious SS Californian…
Some people think there’s a line, and if everybody stays on their side of the line, then we’ll all get along just fine. That’s what Billy’s da told him, back before he joined up in the Great War.
'Course, that was before the war ended, and Billy’s da came home with shell shock. It gets harder when Billy becomes friends with Foster, a black boy who loves baseball and whose daddy went to war, too.
Soon, the boys’ friendship has triggered a series of events that will change both their lives forever. With racial tensions in the city coming to a head, Billy must decide once and for all what it means to be courageous, to be a friend, and to truly cross the line.
From the celebrated team behind Creepy Carrots!, Aaron Reynolds and Caldecott Honor winner Peter Brown, comes a hilarious (and just a little creepy) story of a brave rabbit and a very weird pair of underwear.
Jasper Rabbit is NOT a little bunny anymore. He’s not afraid of the dark, and he’s definitely not afraid of something as silly as underwear. But when the lights go out, suddenly his new big rabbit underwear glows in the dark. A ghoulish, greenish glow. If Jasper didn’t know any better he’d say his undies were a little, well, creepy. Jasper’s not scared obviously, he’s…
My granddaughter is
obsessed with unicorns, so this book went easily into the library bag. But we
were as surprised as the protagonist, Lucy, when we found out Sparkle isn't a
unicorn—spoiler alert—she's a goat!
Poor Lucy wants Sparkle to behave like a
unicorn, and she decides to send her back when that doesn't happen. But with a
wonderful twist, Lucy changes her mind, and Sparkle stays. The subtle lesson the
new goat owner learns is that sometimes, expectations can be changed to
accommodate the new situation.
When Lucy sees an ad in the newspaper for a unicorn, she sends in her twenty five cents and waits four to six long weeks for her very own unicorn to arrive. She imagines the flowers that she'll braid into his beautiful pink mane, and she even picks the perfect name for him: Sparkle. But when Sparkle arrives, his ears are too long, his horn is too short, he smells funny and oh, he has fleas. Lucy isn't pleased, but in the end she warms up to Sparkle and realises that even though he wasn't exactly the unicorn she wanted,…
