Title: Hole in My Life
Author: Jack Gantos
Genre: YA Memoir
Number of Pages: 200
Rating: A-
Recommended?: Yes
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Book Review: Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos
Tag: Creativity
Book Review: The Owls Have Come to Take Us Away by Roland L. Smith
Title: The Owls Have Come to Take Us Away
Author: Roland L. Smith
Genre: Middle Grade Sci-Fi
Number of Pages: 272
Rating: B-
Recommended?: Yes
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Book Review: Paper Heart by Cat Patrick
Title: Paper Heart
Author: Cat Patrick
Genre: Realistic Middle Grade Fiction
Number of Pages: 304
Rating: B+
Recommended?: Yes
–Warning: This review contains spoilers for Tornado Brain, which this book is a companion of-
Another Vignette: Parker (Age 13)
This is another scene from one of my manuscripts, the project is a epistolary novel made up of emails exchanged between Libby, a college dropout, and a 13-year-old boy with Asperger’s named Parker (for a scene focusing on Libby, click here.) I myself have Asperger’s and I put some of my own experiences into the character.
First Parker Vignette here
Book Review: Diary by Chuck Palahniuk
Title: Diary
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
Genre: Psychological Fiction
Number of Pages: 262
Rating: B
Recommended?: Yes
Excerpt from Manuscript; Libby #1
This is an excerpt from a manuscript I wrote about an online friendship between a college dropout and a 13-year-old boy with Asperger’s Syndrome. It’s written in epistolary format and this scene is told from the young woman (the college drop-out)’s perspective.
Book Review: The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
Title: The One and Only Ivan
Author: Katherine Applegate
Genre: Contemporary Middle Grade Fiction
Number of Pages: 307
Rating: B+
Recommended?: Yes
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Book Review: Mr. Cables by Ronald Malfi
Title: Mr. Cables
Author: Ronald Malfi
Genre: Horror Novella
Number of Pages: 99
Rating: B-
Recommended?: Yes
Book Review: Mean Little Deaf Queer by Terry Galloway
Title: Mean Little Deaf Queer
Author: Terry Galloway
Genre: Memoirs
Number of Pages: 248
Rating: B+
Recommended?: Yes
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Book Review: The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Title: The Poet X
Author: Elizabeth Acevedo
Genre: YA Realistic Fiction/Books in Verse
Number of Pages: 368
Rating: B+
Recommended?: Yes
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