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Book Review: Bone Gap by Laura Ruby

I didn’t feel that Laura Ruby was in-your-face with her feminism, but it was certainly there, and what she had to say was important for any reader, but maybe especially for a teen audience. I love what Bone Gap has done, and how it was ...
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Book Review: Church of Marvels by Leslie Parry

Leslie Parry’s Church of Marvels is a slow, twisting tale of outcasts and coincidences, weaving together the lives of four people into one story, set in turn-of-the-century New York City. It’s a unique novel, one that I really enjoyed. The ...
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Book Review: Devoted by Jennifer Mathieu

I’ve always thought that YA fiction need more novels about faith—struggling with faith, leaving a faith, adopting one. Though it’s often a large component of adolescence, faith is a hard subject to find in YA; I can think of only a handful of ...
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Book Review: Unraveled by Courtney Milan

Unraveled is just vastly different than any other romance novel I’ve ever read—and I’ve read a fair few. Milan has always thwarted convention, but this time she goes a little further outside its bounds. The main couple never has an argument or a ...
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Book Review: Bones & All by Camille DeAngelis

We learn in the first pages of Bones & All that our protagonist, Maren, eats people. It’s clearly something she was born to do, and over the course of the novel, she meets several people who are also “eaters”. In fact, the Midwestern United ...
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