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The greatest stakes are often the lowest

The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger

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10 second pitch: What if Liane Moriarty wrote the Varsity Blues scandal, but for middle school? I swallowed this book whole, staying up until an inadvisable time in the evening (on a school night!) to read it in one gulp. It was so good, right up until it wasn’t. Rose, Samantha, Azra, and Lauren have been friends since they met in an infant swim class when their babies were babies. They’re by turns supportive and competitive, little power struggles creating fault lines in their friendships. When the town announces the opening of a brand new gifted magnet school, just as […]

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9/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:22 |

More like The Meh Twin

The Bad Twin by Avery Scott

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A twin romance with mistaken identity and forced proximity. Remember the joke in Jude Devereaux’s earlier books that the hero/heroine should “marry the one who can tell the twins apart”? Our hero here, Hudson Quinn, fails that test. He hires a drunken–but HOT!–Gabby Levesque after she stumbles out of club one night and saves his butt on a phone call by speaking French.* Gabby isn’t exactly the most reliable of employees, however, and when it comes time for her to accompany Hudson to An Important Meeting in Paris, he has to drag her out of her home for the flight. […]

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9/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:21 |

Read this. That’s the whole review.

The Rise of Kyoshi by F. C. Yee

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Because I want the best for you, here’s the short version: scroll to the bottom of this review and click the link to buy it. Buy a copy for everyone you know who is a fan of Avatar: The Last Airbender. (If you have friends who are not fans, have you shared the good news of the Avatar with them?) F.C. Yee teams up with Michael Dante DiMartino (one of the creators of ATLA) to tell the story of Kyoshi, the most recent Earthbending Avatar to precede Aang. Fans of the cartoon will remember Avatar Kyoshi as the namesake of […]

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8/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:20 |

How to enjoy parenting your middle school student

Middle School Matters by Phyllis L. Fagell

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Every phase of parenting has unique joys and challenges. As the parent of a ten year old, I’m going to say that this phase we’re in right now–the tween phase–is the first time I am legitimately terrified of messing up my kid. Some of it’s due to the era we live in. Twelve years into this grand experiment of putting the internet in our pockets and we don’t have norms yet for how and when to bring kids online. (Frankly, they’re already there, so it’s more like how do we do this in a healthy way.) Some of it’s due […]

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8/8/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:19 |

Blackenized fashion

Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem by Daniel R. Day

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Were you fly? Flyness wasn’t about how handsome you were, although that helped, or about how expensive your clothes were, although that helped, or what brand they were. … Power was fly, and fly was power. I only learned who Dapper Dan was recently, in the context of hearing about his partnership with Gucci after years of being raided and copied by major European luxury brands. The short version of who he is and why he’s known: Dan was a hustler who had made a name for himself making “knocked up” (not “off”) fashion. He applied the logos of famous […]

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7/31/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:18 |

Deciding to be a hero

Teen Titans: Raven by Kami Garcia, Gabriel Picolo

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Raven Roth doesn’t know how she got here. She wakes up from a car accident to discover that her only family, her soon-to-be adopted mother has passed. Worse, she doesn’t remember anything about her life before. To add another layer to this horror, strange things keep happening. Why can she hear everyone’s thoughts? Why do the things she thinks about keep happening? And what’s with the bird shadow following her around? Raven wrestles with these questions, supported by her foster mother’s sister and niece. Bonus: there’s a cute boy hanging around (and, because it’s Kami Garcia, it’s complicated). Kami Garcia’s […]

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7/9/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:17 |

This Place Is Not My Home

This Place is Not My Home (Brothers #2) by Cyn Bermudez

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Brothers Victor and Isaac are living in foster homes over an hour apart. This book is their email correspondence with one another as both try to adjust to their changing world. While Isaac has been placed in a home where he feels welcome, his older brother Victor is struggling in his placement. There are a lot of kids in his foster home, and he clashes with one of the other children. When Victor is accused of theft, he scrambles to find a way out of his placement. I missed the first installment in the series, but the book feels fairly […]

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6/30/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:16 |

What’s the word for half-smitten? Smooten? Smittle?

Smitten by the Brit by Melonie Johnson

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This was not my book. There’s nothing actually wrong with it, but by the end of the first page, I knew this was a bad match. Before I get into why I didn’t care for it, a brief synopsis: Bubbly English professor escapes nurses a broken heart by taking on a summer teaching gig in England. Her best friend’s fiance’s best man happens to set her heart aflutter, something her newly single status allows her to appreciate guilt-free. For his part, the best man happens to be fending off matchmaking efforts by his mother: the family needs an influx of […]

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5/28/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:15 |


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