Shannon Boote

This is a middle grade book that does so many thing right. The story is one, that during my many years of reading bedtime stories to my...

Rating: 4 Stars- First let me say that if you decide to dive into this one, take the trigger warnings seriously. That said, this is why I...

Rating: 4 stars Amanda Lovelace weaves a journey through devastation, heartache, self hate, love, becoming the hero of her own story and...

Rating: 5 Stars Jason Reynolds destroyed me with Long Way Down. I had a lump in my throat with every turn of the page. As a mother, the...

Rating: 5 Stars For Everyone by Jason Reynolds is a letter to dreamers. It is about looking forward to things that seem unattainable, but...

I look back on the last year and want to jump up and down because we made it through the storm. My book Premonitions was to be launched...

Rating: 3 Stars I read a lot of poetry and I did like this collection, but I did not love it. There are things I really liked about some...

Rating: 4.5 Stars House of Furies by Madeleine Roux is well written and edited. It is an original story in which Roux paints a vivid...