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The Swifts
I read this out loud to my 7- and 10-year-old this spring. Full of goofy, literal puns for them and beautiful writing for me, it was the perfect family pleasing book to read. I highly recommend this for any family with a middle-grade reader! Five out of five stars for great plot, writing, and character…
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Midnight Strikes
Midnight Strikes, debut novel from Zeba Shahnaz, might be my favorite book of the 2023. While the first few pages are a bland mix of fantasy-country names and a survey of the political landscape, keep going! By chapter two, I was captured by the premise: what if Cinderella went to the ball and met a…
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World Running Down
Protagonist Valentine is a cupcake too good for this world – and way too good for dystopian Utah, where the story takes place. World Running Down, the first traditionally published foray by Al Hess, weaves together the experiences of Valentine’s search for gender-affirming care with the dawning sentience of android sex workers. Along the way,…
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Gideon the Ninth
Gideon the Ninth, debut novel of Tamsyn Muir, is no longer the new kid on the block. (But as a former homeschooler, I’m used to being late to the pop culture party. So here we are!) The premise of this soft sci-fi brick (seriously, it’s long) pits main character pair Gideon Nav and Harrowhark Nonagesimus…
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Mackenzie Snader 