Keeping Paceby Laurie MorrisonI received a free copy for review. Source: ebook/publisherPublished: 9 Apr. 2024 Publisher: Amulet Books (Abrams)Length: 304 pagesGenre: ContemporaryTarget Age: Upper MG (suitable for +10) Summary 💬 Grace has been working for years to beat her former friend Jonah Perkins’s GPA so she can be named top scholar of the eighth grade. But when Jonah beats her for the title, it feels like none of Grace’s academic accomplishments have really mattered. […]

Alice Austen Lived Hereby Alex GinoSource: Hardcover/libraryPublished: June 2022Publisher: Scholastic PressLength: 176 pages Genre: Contemporary fictionTarget Age: +8Representation: Nonbinary protagonist, Black nonbinary supporting character, various queer supporting characters Summary 💬 Sam is very in touch with their own queer identity. They’re nonbinary, and their best friend, TJ, is nonbinary as well. Sam’s family is very cool with it… as long as Sam remembers that nonbinary kids are also required to clean their rooms, do […]

The Beautiful Something Elseby Ash Van OtterlooSource: Hardcover/libraryPublished: May 2023Publisher: Scholastic PressLength: 271 pages Genre: ContemporaryTarget Age: +8Representation: Assorted queer identities incl nonbinary, trans woman, unlabelled aro/ace I previously read Van Otterloo’s debut Cattywampus but have yet to pick up their sophomore novel A Touch of Ruckus. Both of those stories have a good dose of magic about them. This one is not magical (well, there’s a touch of it in the lightest gentlest mostly […]