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The Star Outside My Window by Onjali Q. Rauf
The Star Outside My Window by Onjali Q. Rauf is a beautifully heartwarming novel about a ten-year-old girl named Aniyah. After Aniyah’s mum dies, she is put in a foster home run by Mrs. Iwuchukwu, a foster mum, with her little brother Noah. When a star appears on the news channel, Aniyah is convinced that it is her mum’s heart that has transformed into a star. And then, later when the news channel announces that there will be a competition to give the star a name, Aniyah knows that she must break into the Royal Observatory to give the star…
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Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer is a wonderfully suspenseful novel about a young genius named Artemis Fowl. The Fowls have built up their fortune from the past generations from robbing, and when Artemis’s dad decides to invest in a legitimate shipping company, he is presumed to have been killed by the Russian Mafia, so when it’s up to Artemis Fowl to reclaim the family riches, he decides to do something no one has ever done before: to capture a fairy for a hefty ransom of fairy gold. Artemis Fowl may be a genius, but one of the only things Artemis…
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Root Magic by Eden Royce
Root Magic by Eden Royce is a wonderful novel about a Black girl, Jezebel, and her twin brother, Jay. Jezebel and Jay live in the South in 1963, and things are taking a turn for the worse. Their dearest grandmother has just died, and the police deputy won’t stop tormenting her family. However, as Jezebel and Jay soon realize, those might not be the worst of their problems. When their grandma died, she took some of her magical protection along with her, and now it’s up to Jezebel and Jay to learn rootwork and protect their home and family from…
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The Science of Breakable Things by Tae Keller
The Science of Breakable Things by Tae Keller is a magnificent book about a girl named Natalie Napoli. Natalie’s mom, a biologist, suffers from depression and Natalie is doing everything she can to try and bring her back from her hole of despair. When Mr. Neely, her science teacher, suggests that she enter an egg drop competition, she is hesitant to accept. However, when she sees the prize money she realizes that she might be able to take her mom to see the magical Cobalt Blue Orchids that survived toxic pollution and revive her from her sad, deep, slumber she…
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Pavi Sharma’s Guide to Going Home by Bridget Farr
Pavi Sharma’s Guide to Going Home by Bridget Farr is a beautifully passionate novel about a twelve-year-old named, well, Pavi Sharma. Pavi lives with her foster brother and foster mom after having lived on and off at many foster homes over the years and staying at a foster care center called Crossroads. However, one day when she returns to the center, she finds out that a little five-year-old, Meridee, is going to the place of Pavi’s nightmares, Pavi decides to save her and stop her from staying in the house which could potentially ruin her life.
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Lemons by Melissa Savage
Lemons by Melissa Savage is a delightful novel about a young girl named Lemonade Liberty Witt. However, when her mom dies, she has to move away from the city and everything she has known to a tiny town called Willow Creek. But, life in Willow Creek might not be as boring as Lemonade anticipated. Lemonade meets a boy called Tobin who’s on a quest to catch bigfoot on film and present him to the rest of the world. Lemonade decides to work with Tobin to catch bigfoot, once and for all. However, she has a bigger goal: to learn about…
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The Girl in Wooden Armour by Conrad Mason
The Girl in Wooden Armour by Conrad Mason is a fabulous, fantastical novel about a girl named Hattie. When Hattie visits her wacky grandmother, Deidre Gavell, for the first time in years, things don’t go as she expects. Hattie and her family arrive at her grandma’s house, but she isn’t there, seeming to have disappeared without a trace. Hattie is absolutely set on finding her grandma, no matter how hard or dangerous it will be.
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Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed
Amal Unbound, a novel by Aisha Saeed, is a wonderful book about protesting injustices. Amal, the main character, lives in a village in Pakistan. She goes to school, does chores around the house, and plays with her sisters. However, one day after her mother gives birth to another baby girl, she starts to feel sick and Amal has to take care of the family. Sadly, a few days later Amal accidentally talks back to the village landlord, Sawad, and he takes her away to his mansion to become his servant. Until Amal is able to pay off the debt and…
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Millionaires for the Month by Stacy McAnulty
Millionaires for the Month by Stacy McAnulty is a beautiful novel about two boys, Benji Porter and Felix Rannells. The two would never have met if they hadn’t been stuck together on the field trip, they probably wouldn’t even have been friends if they hadn’t found the wallet of billionaire Laura Friendly lying on the ground and stolen twenty dollars to buy hot dogs because twenty dollars is like a penny to a billionaire, and then returned it. Yet somehow, Laura Friendly had found out that her twenty dollars had been stolen and Benji and Felix had been called to…
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