What did you read this year?
Sherrill’s
average rating for
2024
5.0
it was amazing
5.0
Prolific author Maggie Lynch’s The Power of S.A.D. makes this reader ready for the next book in The Mariposa Lane series for ages eleven to fifteen. Responsible, eleven-year-old Akna Sales, who tells an Oregon social worker that she “might as well be fourteen,� means it.
Two years earlier, Akna became the head of her family after the deaths of her beloved Guatemalan-immigrant grandparents. Her substance-abusing mother frequently vanishes for weeks ...more
Two years earlier, Akna became the head of her family after the deaths of her beloved Guatemalan-immigrant grandparents. Her substance-abusing mother frequently vanishes for weeks ...more
Valerie Biel’s first Middle-Grade fiction book surely won’t be her last. Eleven-year-old Mardella Houston and her mother are on the run from an abusive father and husband in Illinois to make a fresh start in Minnesota at rundown Rest Haven Senior Living. The two hope that the housing community will become their safe home. While Ms. Houston works as its new director, the artistic Mardella struggles with guilt over her father’s arrest and imprisonm
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