Jazz Jennings demonstrates that she is wise beyond her years and an inspiration to us all in this memoir. You can hear her voice distinctly throughout the whole book. I also enjoyed hearing how she understands that she had an unusual situation but continues to work for ending discrimination against those who are not as lucky. If anyone is curious about what it is like to be transgender, this book is an excellent place to start.

Pretty fun! I would like to look back and see Hilda's other adventures.

Daisy Fitzjohn lives with her mother at Brightwood, an old manor house. For eleven years, she has never left the house, and she and her mother have had a particular routine. One Monday, her mother breaks the routine and she doesn't come back from a trip to the store. Instead, a man claiming to be a distant cousin shows up. Does he have good intentions?

This story touched on loss, mental illness, and a bit on hoarding. I'm not sure I really liked mental illness being called "The Crazy", but overall, it was a thriller with heart.

I found it to have too much jargon for my taste (and too jumpy) but I bet your dinosaur-obsessed friend will love it!

This is an interesting play on Jack and the Beanstalk. Jack takes care of his autistic younger sister Maddie while his single mom struggles to pay the bills. When Maddie talks one day at a flea market, Jack ends up trading the family car for some magic seeds. These seeds are mysterious plants, seemingly from another world. But Maddie loves them, so Jack is reluctant to ruin the garden.

I enjoyed this one. The take on the original tale is fun, and I am excited to see where the cliffhanger ending takes us.

Two sets of red headed twins on an adventure. Hard to keep them all straight at times, but I did enjoy it.

That is one major ending.

I enjoyed this tale of intersecting stories, where each person brings out a little bit more of the tale and then it all comes to a head at the end. It did take me a little while to get into it, but once I did I didn't want to leave it.

One thing I didn't like was the reference to William as African. It's a continent, not a country. I have found it in a few other places lately so I wonder if that is why it stuck out to me. I would have preferred a country name (one specific to the area for the time) or left that he was a Saracen.

I am torn about this one. I think it has a great sister relationship and brings awareness of cystic fibrosis, but I am not 100% solid with the use of Dia de los Muertos in the story, and I can tell from other reviews that I am not the only one. It requires more thinking and reading.

I was not a huge fan of the artwork, and there were times when I was confused about what the cave people knew and didn't know of modern words, but I think kids will enjoy this one and it has STEM applications.