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The Paper Museum by Kate S. Simpson
The Paper Museum by Kate S. Simpson is an extraordinarily unique novel about a girl named Lydia. Ever since her parents’ sudden disappearance, Lydia has been living with her Uncle Lem in the Paper Museum. Lydia lives in a world where paper is a rarity and most people use “Aer Readers”, a phone that you can put on your finger. However, when her Uncle Lem has to leave for a mysterious trip, she is left with his cranky brother, Renald. This isn’t the only problem. Government agents have been showing up more and more to the museum, taking notes and…
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Miracle Season by Beth Hautala
Miracle Season by Beth Hautala is a beautiful, warmhearted novel about a girl named Persephone Pearl Clark who lives in Coulter, Wisconsin. Persephone, just like her name suggests, has the power to make plants grow. However, after her brother, Levi’s, near-death experience that put him in a coma, Persephone has started to lie more and more to all the people around her. The lies are neccesary. The only thing to keep her parents from finding out something that they would surely disapprove of, she has a solution that could fix everything: entering her hometown in the hit television show, Small…
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Tin by Pádraig Kenny
Tin by Pádraig Kenny is an absolutely stunning work of art about a boy named Christopher. Christopher is content being the only “proper” boy in a shoddy engineer, Absalom’s, workshop, surrounded by mechanicals, robots that can feel and speak. However, one day, Manda, a mechanical made to look and be like a little girl, loses her teddy bear in the middle of the street. When Manda runs to get her teddy bear, a car going far too fast nearly flattens her. Yet it doesn’t, it doesn’t kill Manda, it doesn’t kill Manda because Christopher jumped in the way to save…
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The Cardboard Kingdom by Chad Sell
The Cardboard Kingdom by Chad Sell is a magnificent graphic novel filled with short stories about some kids using a seemingly endless supply of cardboard and their imaginations to create a gigantic cardboard kingdom during their summer vacation. The kingdom is filled with monsters and heroes, such as the Big Banshee, and the Prince who protects the kingdom from threats like the Sorceress and her minions. However, that’s not all, there’s also an inn where weary travelers can stay, but there are no free refills! But everything isn’t quite as fun or happy as it seems in the Cardboard Kingdom.
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Circus Mirandus by Cassie Beasley
Circus Mirandus by Cassie Beasley is a flurry of emotions packed into absolutely beautiful writing about a boy named Micah Tuttle. Micah’s grandfather, Ephraim Tuttle, is gravely ill, and he has been for some time now. However, Micah’s grandpa has always told him stories about a magical place called Circus Mirandus, where magic is everywhere, and where Micah’s grandpa had only been once. But that one time, he was offered a miracle by the Man Who Bends Light, or the Lightbender. Most children use their miracles to get souvenirs or more tickets, things that aren’t really miracles, but Micah’s grandfather…
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Twinchantment by Elise Allen
Twinchantment by Elise Allen is a wondrously enchanting novel about two twins named Sara and Flissa. However, ever since the dark magic uprising years ago where all the king’s family was killed, all magic and any signs of magic have been banned. These include left-handedness, black cats, and of course, twinhood. Sara and Flissa are also princesses, and their parents have hidden their twinhood from the Kaloon for the past eleven years where the princesses were only allowed to go out, one at a time, under the pseudonym Princess Flissara. However, one day, their mother returns from a journey with…
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Ravenous Things by Derrick Chow
Ravenous Things by Derrick Chow is a spectacularly spooky novel about a boy named Reggie Wong. There is only one thing missing in Reggie’s life, his dad, and Reggie would do just about anything to have him back. So when a creepy man called the Conductor promises Reggie that his greatest wish can be granted, Reggie hurriedly agrees. He follows the Conductor’s instructions and gathers at midnight in a subway station filled with many other kids who were promised the same wish. The kids rush onto the Conductor’s subway and are flung into rooms that look as if they were…
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Futureland: Battle for the Park by H.D. Hunter
Futureland: Battle for the Park by H.D. Hunter is a fabulously unique novel about a seventh grader named Cameron (Cam) Walker. Cam lives with his parents, the founders of the famous flying amusement park, Futureland, during the year 2048. Living there is every kid’s dream, including Cam’s, but, it becomes a nightmare for him during their stop in Atlanta. Kids start disappearing, his parents are replaced with revs, which are remarkably-advanced robots designed by Cam’s parents, and the other revs as well as park attractions are malfunctioning. Cam and his friends must find a way to stop this before everything…
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Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster by Jonathan Auxier
Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster is a beautifully wholehearted novel about a chimney sweeper named Nan Sparrow set in Victorian London. Nan had always known and lived with the Sweep, a man that saved her from starvation when she was little and helped everyone around him. At least she used to before he one day mysteriously disappeared leaving her with only his hat, one of a sweep’s most prized possessions, and a piece of coal that always seemed to emit heat, no matter how cold it was. Once the Sweep left, Nan knew that she had…
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A Perfect Mistake by Melanie Conklin
A Perfect Mistake by Melanie Conklin is a compelling story of friendship about a kid named Max. Max’s friend, Will, has recently fallen into a deep coma after their friend, Joey convinced them to head to the roundhouse inside the reservation, or “res”, to check out the graffiti there even though they all knew it would be highly hazardous. Now Joey won’t speak to him and nobody is sure Will will survive. However, Max teams up with a classmate, Samantha Bovella, to bring what really happened to Will to light, hoping that things will return to normal and that he…
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