This story, about a teen boy navigating his 14th summer at Boy Scout camp, touched my heart. It's hard to read in places, because you read about the cruelty that this boy has had taught into him by his family and his church. I think it's worth reading though. 1995 is not that long ago.

This was okay. I think the ideas are good, but it was a little fluffier than what I wanted.

I enjoyed this one. Wyatt is just going about his life with his friend Piper when suddenly his fae fiancé Emyr shows up, wanting him to come back and set the kingdom right. Wyatt has very legit reasons for not wanting to do this, but he does it anyway and then things get messy. You learn about the difference between witches and fae, how they got here, and other hard topics. I enjoyed it.

I love Duncan Tonatiuh's illustrations so much. I learned a lot about the Nahual people as well, which was fun. I'd like to know more about this woman who fought so hard to protect her culture.

It's a story about poop, yes, but it's also about pollution, and disease spreading, and engineering. I really like the afterward.

A well-researched book about the Cold War. It talks a lot about spycraft. For me, the parts dealing with Khrushchev were my favorite, as I knew less about him. It made me (as an adult) think a lot about how there are definitely things that we do (say, have missiles in Turkey aimed at the USSR) which we are fine, but if someone does it to us, it's horrible and grounds for potential war. I'm not saying there's a right answer, but reading this as an adult, it made me think about how complicated these things can be.

This book is so good. It's about finding yourself, and a ghost story, and a grief story. It's about middle school and changing and trying to figure out who you are. Ready Betsey Bird's review. That just about sums it up.

This is a really cute book about how hard it is to dress dinosaurs. Nothing fits right!

Gansworth's writing is beautiful. I'm not sure I had read any of his work before this, but I'm going to go back and look at it. This book details his life growing up on a reservation, and his eventual moving away. In some ways he is an outsider on the reservation as well--Tuscarora on Onondaga land. The title of the book refers to someone who is Native on the outside, white on the inside. I wonder if this has to do with the effect of Indian boarding schools on tribes. That experience is also mentioned.

The whole book is structured similar to an album, and the history of the Beatles comes into play over and over again with the story, in the art and in the writing. There are even liner notes at the end.

It's different than a lot of what I've read this year, and different than a lot of other teen books. I'll have to sit with this one for a while.

A powerful biography of a trailblazing woman.