It was okay. I think teens will enjoy it and it was fun to read but not life-changing in any way.

I liked this one. It's a contemporary romance with interesting main characters. One is a Malay Christian born in India, raised in Saudi Arabia going to an all girls boarding school, who then immigrates to Canada with her mother while her father stays behind. The other is Zoroastrian Parsi whose mother died of cancer and has a complicated relationship with his father, a troublemaker trying to reform. I would have liked to learn more about what the Zoroastrian religion is like, but maybe it was fine that there wasn't too much, after all, Christianity doesn't affect my life on the regular. Good.

I ended up reading this one almost in one sitting. It's the story of a messy queer romance, Sometimes I wasn't sure entirely why Freddie was so into Laura Dean when Laura was such a mess, but haven't most of us had relationships like that? I also loved Freddie's friend group, who seemed to know that Laura wasn't great for Freddie but didn't entirely know how to tell her that, which also feels right to me for high school. I read it almost all in one sitting.

I really liked this story of high school feminist activists. Jasmine and Chelsea are best friends, and both their viewpoints are represented. Jasmine is a teen trying to get people to see her beyond her blackness and body size, while dealing with her father's dying from cancer and emerging feelings for her friend Isaac. Chelsea is white and all activism all the time, learning from pushing too hard and other mistakes. The friendship feels lived in to me. I also liked the way it looked at how a social justice school can still fail in so many ways.

This book is so good and so hard. Marisol and her sister, Gabi, are on the run from gang violence in El Salvador and have illegally entered the United States. They thought someone would be waiting for them, but there isn't. Marisol agrees to a risky experiment to try to guarantee asylum. Will love happen too?

There's a lot to discuss in this story, and I don't want to share too much because of spoilers. But my heart broke for Marisol over and over again, and yours will too.

Cute romance with a strong Cuban/Latinx core. Three generations tortured by the sea and what it means to leave your home country. I read it in almost one sitting.

A super cute story about an angry dog that thinks it is a wolf, until the right person comes to love it.

This is a great story about what it means to have a good day, since sometimes kids might not understand what that means. I really like the illustrations, which look mostly like cut paper.

Please to give me all the books illustrated like this yes thank you.

Oh fine, the text was good too. I was just really here for the pictures.

When I read this one I thought of "Little Pink Pup" and thought it was the same story. It isn't, just sort of a reverse. That one is better.