Book Review: Optimists Die First by Susin Nielsen

Title: Optimists Die First

Author: Susin Nielsen

Genre: YA Realistic Fiction

Number of Pages: 240

Rating: A

Recommended?: Yes

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Book Review: Give a Boy a Gun by Todd Strasser

Title: Give a Boy a Gun

Author: Todd Strasser

Genre: YA Realistic Fiction

Number of Pages: 208

Rating: C+

Recommended?: No

Book Review: Things I Should Have Known by Claire LaZebnik

Title: Things I Should Have Known

Author: Claire LaZebnik

Genre: YA Realistic Fiction

Number of Pages: 320

Rating: B+

Recommended?: Yes

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Book Review: We Are All Made of Molecules by Susin Nielsen

Title: We Are All Made of Molecules

Author: Susin Nielsen

Genre: YA Realistic Fiction

Number of Pages: 256

Rating: A

Recommended?: Yes

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Book Review: Stay Gold by Tobly McSmith

Title: Stay Gold

Author: Tobly McSmith

Genre: YA Realistic Fiction

Number of Pages: 368

Rating: B

Recommended?: Yes

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Book Review: Prom by Laurie Halse Anderson

Title: Prom

Author: Laurie Halse Anderson

Genre: YA Realistic Fiction

Number of Pages: 215

Rating: B-

Recommended?: Yes

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Book Review: The Easy Part of Impossible by Sarah Tomp

Title: The Easy Part of Impossible

Author: Sarah Tomp

Genre: YA Realistic Fiction

Number of Pages: 352

Rating: B

Recommended?: Yes

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Book Review: A List of Cages by Robin Roe

Title: A List of Cages

Author: Robin Roe

Genre: YA Realistic Fiction

Number of Pages: 310

Rating: A-

Recommended?: Yes

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Book Review: Ask Me How I Got Here by Christine Heppermann

Title: Ask Me How I Got Here

Author: Christine Heppermann

Genre: YA Realistic Fiction/Books in Verse

Number of Pages: 240

Rating: B-

Recommended?: Yes

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Book Review: My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf

Title: My Friend Dahmer

Author: Derf Backderf

Genre: Graphic Novel/Memoir

Number of Pages: 224

Rating: C+

Recommended?: No

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