Author: Carl Deuker
Published: 2010 Mitch wants to be a great reporter when he gets older. He has always worked on the newspaper at his high school, and this year he has his hopes set on becoming editor. When someone else gets the job as editor, Mitch is moved from lead reporter to sports reporter, something he doesn't care about at all. He decides to make the best of the situation and write amazing stories about the sports going on at the high school. He even gets to work with Kimi, a great photographer who Mitch has a little bit of a crush on. As Mitch starts his job as sports reporter, he starts to notice that one of the kids on the football team, a boy named Angel, is extremely talented, only he hardly gets any playing time. When he asks the football coach about it, he is dismissed. Anytime Mitch writes about Angel, when his articles are published, Angel's name is no longer in his news stories. Mitch and Kimi start to investigate why Angel isn't getting the playing time he deserves and why they keep getting no answers from anyone. Payback Time is a good sports mystery that will keep readers hooked!
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Author: Geoff Herbach
Published: 2018 Adam used to live in Poland with his father and mother, but then his mom got sick and died and his dad abandoned him. He was adopted by Renata who brought him all the way from Poland to Minnesota. Adam is an excellent basketball player. He is six and a half feet tall and very talented. One of his problems is that he sometimes lets his temper get the best of him, and then bad things happen. When Adam gets the chance to join an all-star AAU team, right away he is an outsider. The boys think that he was picked just because he was white so that they have a white kid on the team. They don't think he's as talented as the rest of them, and they think that because he's quiet he thinks he's better than everyone else. Really, Adam struggles with his English sometimes and doesn't want to speak in front of them. Soon this AAU team becomes everything to him. But then something happens that puts everything he has worked for at risk. Hooper is a great book sports fans will love. Author: Ruta Sepetys
Published: 2019 After the Spanish Civil War, dictator Francisco Franco took over control of Spain. Under his rule, those who were on the opposite side during the war greatly suffered. Ana's parents were on the other side. Her father was killed, and her mother was imprisoned and then died. She and her siblings live in a shack and barely make enough to get by. Ana works as a maid at a fancy hotel where the guests pay for things that she could never even dream of buying for herself. She is assigned as the maid to an American family visiting Spain. There is a boy around her age named Daniel who wants to be a photographer even though his father has other ideas for his future. Daniel wants to capture the secrets of Spain with his camera, the ugly things that no one talks about. Ana and Daniel immediately feel a connection with one another. As the story is told in different viewpoints, we soon come to realize that Spain is hiding a very dark secret that is affecting so many different people. The Fountains of Silence is one of those books you just don't want to put down. Historical fiction fans will love this. I really didn't know anything about this part of Spain's history before reading this book. I cannot recommend this book enough. If you liked Sepetys' Salt to the Sea or Between Shades of Gray, this is a must-read. Author: Jordan Sonnenblick
Published: 2017 Maverick is small. His dad passed away a long time ago, and ever since, his mom has had a steady stream of terrible, abusive boyfriends. She is an alcoholic and can't take care of herself, much less Maverick. Maverick keeps this a secret from everyone because he doesn't want his mom to get in trouble and he doesn't want to be separated from her. One of the only things Maverick got from his father was a toy sheriff's badge back when he was alive and everything was perfect. Maverick can't save his mom, but he decides that just maybe he can save other people. He is going to start fighting injustice at school. He is just starting sixth grade, and right away his plan to make school a better place goes completely wrong, and he ends up getting in trouble. And then it happens again. The year definitely does not go as Maverick expected it to, and then things at home start getting worse, and Maverick doesn't know where to turn. The Secret Sheriff of Sixth Grade is a heartwarming, heartbreaking book about a boy who has a really tough life but has the biggest heart. Great, great book. Author: Erin Entrada Kelly
Published: 2015 Apple moved to the United States from the Philippines. Her father passed away in the Philippines, and her mom had a really hard time, so they decided to start new in America and brought over hardly anything from the Philippines. Apple secretly grabbed her dad's Beatles cassette tape, and ever since Apple has been obsessed with the Beatles. She wants to get a guitar and be a musician, but it upsets her mom whenever she talks about it. Apple has two really good friends, but this year everything is different. Suddenly they are noticing boys more and the most important thing to her friends is staying off the Dog Log, the list of the ugliest girls in school, decided by the boys. When Apple finds out she is number three on the list, she is hurt and self-conscious. Is she ugly? And why won't her friends stand up for her? Apple suddenly is going through one of the hardest years of her life, and she doesn't know how to get help. Blackbird Fly is a fantastic story about bullying and being different. I love Apple, and my heart hurts for any kid who is dealing with bullying every day at school. |
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