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Transient and Strange: Notes on the Science of Life by Nell Greenfieldboyce
4.0
As the kid of two scientists, reading Greenfieldboyce's collection of musings felt like another night at the family dinner table: the warmth of the personal, but you're also going to learn something. Her journalistic voice seamlessly layers science-fact with the soft moments of the day-to-day, equal fascination and reverence granted whether she is discussing conversations with her kids or the biological make up of a flea.
The City of Stardust by Georgia Summers
4.0
An enchanting story of gods and girls, promises and debts, doors and keys and dreams of stars. The story of the Everly family is enchantingly woven into a fairy tale with the worlds-building prowess to match. I enjoyed Summers' Morgenstern-esque approach to storytelling, moving back and forth between time and place and including the different versions of the Everly story from the different perspectives, never quite revealing the truth...the openness of the ending was appealing despite the plot holes. Loved Violet's character and development, though the romantic subplot didn't fit for me.
Heartstone by Elle Katharine White
4.0
Your favorite drama queens of the English moors, this time with dragons. White has put together a wildly entertaining adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice," her original elements adding a fun new layer to familiar characters. This book stands on its own as an enjoyable fantasy read even for the non-Austenians out here with action, adventure, angst, and great world building.
The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed
4.0
The only person to ever return from a dark enchanted forest is forced to venture back into the monstrous, murky depths. Woven together with fairytale prose and twisting, rooting riddles is a story about grief, war, and the nature of innocence. And, at the end, a glimmer of light through the trees.
Heartstopper: Volume Five by Alice Oseman
5.0
Really enjoying the direction Oseman is taking with Nick and Charlie's stories- her knack for breaking down and making manageable the big, complicated feelings and deep, important conversations cannot be overstated. Can't wait for volume 6!
Western Lane by Chetna Maroo
4.0
"In the car park, Ged had asked me if I had thought about what would happen after this. I had and I hadn't. I'd imagined as far as Durham and Cleveland, but then there was a wall. Now I was inside the wall, and all I could do was stay in it."
Eleven-year-old Gopi relies on the game of squash--the rules, the training regimen, the observing and anticipating the next move--to navigate the slow implosion of her family, adrift and directionless in the wake of her mother's death. Squash supplies Gopi both an avenue for processing her grief and a tenuous connection with her struggling father, especially as she feels increasingly lost and alienated from her sisters. "Western Lane" is a slim but powerful novel on moving through the world when nothing seems to make sense anymore, while also a story about finding your own strength to push through the darkness.
Eleven-year-old Gopi relies on the game of squash--the rules, the training regimen, the observing and anticipating the next move--to navigate the slow implosion of her family, adrift and directionless in the wake of her mother's death. Squash supplies Gopi both an avenue for processing her grief and a tenuous connection with her struggling father, especially as she feels increasingly lost and alienated from her sisters. "Western Lane" is a slim but powerful novel on moving through the world when nothing seems to make sense anymore, while also a story about finding your own strength to push through the darkness.
The Girl from the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag
5.0
Molly Ostertag has a way of making deep, powerful stories into something so soft and beautiful. A sweet summer coming-of-age story with enchanting artwork.