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Ghost has a dream of being his school's fastest track star. This dream gets him into a bit of trouble and he has to come to terms with this behavior while dealing with trauma from his childhood. This is a short book really good book.

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When a comet threatens to destroy the Earth, a group of scientists and their families are selected to colonize a new planet. Petra Pena has always wanted to be a storyteller like her grandmother and hopes to carry on this tradition on a new planet. However, it will take hundreds of years for them to arrive at the new planet so they must all be put in a cryogenic sleep in order to survive but not everything goes to plan during this sleep.

We Hunt the Flame is set in a mystical like Arabian world and we are following a girl, Zafira, who disguises herself as a boy to serve as the hunter of her land she goes into this magical forest and she is tasked by somebody named The Silver Witch to go to this mystical island to restore all of magic and like that's really cool but here's the thing the prince of this land, Nasir, is called the Prince of Darkness he is a very skilled assassin and he kills everybody for his father he's got all of these marks or tattoos on him that have signified all of the people he's killed. He is tasked by his father to follow her and to kill this Zafira and take whatever it is that she was looking for. But, here's the thing, our prince of darkness is a secret sad soft boy so you know that when he meets Zafira he's not gonna want to kill her and, of course, falls in love with her. 

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Saints of the Household by Ari Tison is a realistic novel about two brothers struggling with an abusive father and an uncertain future. Max and Jay, who live in rural Minnesota, have both been suspended from their high school after they violently beat up Luca, the school’s golden boy soccer captain. That fight started when the brothers defended Nicole, a friend of theirs, from potential abuse by Luca, but almost no one knows the secret background of what caused the boys to jump in and aggressively defend the young woman. That secret is this: at home, their father is incredibly physically abusive toward their mother, and they’ve felt powerless to help. Their suspension from school and the fallout from the fight causes the brothers to react differently. In alternating points of view, we see Max’s world through verse as he looks to the future at art school. Jay is more traditionally book smart, and through narrative prose we see him struggle with leaving his mother alone when both brothers potentially leave for college. This is a story of shared abuse and trauma, self discovery, and reconciliation.