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“My Brother’s Book” has echoes of Shakespeare’s “Winter’s Tale,”...and it contains some of Sendak’s richest and most incantatory language.

NY Times

94%
...leaves virtually no educational icon unscathed. Despite an impressive and idealistic corps of volunteers, Ravitch cites studies indicating that Teach for America may not improve the quality of education in poor and rural school districts.

NPR

92%
Realistic portrayal of contemporary teens and their moral challenges breathes fresh life into well-worn themes of rebellion and first love.

Publishers Weekly

90%
Overall I think this is a great book for people of all ages, and I think it deserves all the credit that it is given.

Guardian

89%
Many teenagers will find the story too slow to get going, which is a fair criticism. But it's the kind of book that can be life-changing, because without ever denying the essential amorality and randomness of the natural order, "The Book Thief" offers us a believable, hard-won hope.

NY Times

88%
Meticulous pacing and finely nuanced characters underpin the author's gift for affecting prose that illuminates the struggles within relationships.

Kirkus

88%
The book is a passionate plea for every citizen to be computer-savvy in order to uphold personal liberties in an age of increased government security. It's also a cracking read.

Guardian

88%
Her successes are hard-won and her setbacks, such as her father's inability to forgive her, painfully true to life.

Publishers Weekly

88%
I honestly have nothing negative to say about this book, I enjoyed every single moment of it. The constant flashbacks into Mia’s life make you want to keep on turning the pages, to learn more about her...

Guardian

88%
Stiefvater, who has an assured and entertaining way with language, doesn’t talk down to her readers, and she ably blends the mystical and the earthly, the primitive and the contemporary...

NY Times

88%
Ketchup Clouds is magic, if you allow it to be, and don't look at it with a reviewer's critical eye, like I did. A 4/5 for this brilliant book. And, when reading, as Aaron says, "Just fly …"

Guardian

88%
Her combination of unforgettable characters and unexpected events generates hilarity as well as warmth.

Publishers Weekly

88%
This is a story about surviving small town schools, which any young adult reader can benefit from. I don't mind telling you that this reader, rather late into young adulthood himself, found Alexie's novel an absolute delight.

NPR

87%
This is just about the best way for Lowry to bookend a series she never intended to last beyond a single volume.

AV Club

87%
The biographer of two great Romantics...relates yet another romantic tale—the story of the human passion to fly up, up and away in a beautiful balloon...Meticulous history illuminated and animated by personal passion, carried aloft by volant prose.

Kirkus

87%
Overall, Code Name Verity is a book that is clever, funny, bewildering, tragic and thought-provoking all at once. I know now that all the time I spent struggling on with it were truly worth it, and I am so glad that I saw it through to the end.

Guardian

86%
The water horses are breathtakingly well-imagined, glorious and untamably violent. The final race, with Sean and Puck each protecting each other but both determined to win, comes to a pitch-perfect conclusion. Masterful. Like nothing else out there now.

Kirkus

86%
With its multiple sub-plots, Shadow Kiss is a little slow at first as the story builds, but the last third of the book is action-packed...Richelle Mead changes the game with Shadow Kiss and leaves me wondering what could possibly happen now. An excellent half-way point in an exceptionally great series.

The Librarian Next Door

86%
Spirit Bound was full of twist and turns my first time reading it. I should have seen certain events coming that I just didn’t. And the ones that were more obvious, I just wasn’t sure how they would play out...But so much happens and cliffhangers are left. And well…Spirit Bound still lives up to the 5 Stars I originally rated it...

Somewhere Only We Know

86%
There's no doubting Guantanamo Boy's integrity, nor its seriousness of purpose in documenting this shocking situation.

Guardian

86%

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