If I Stay by Gayle Forman

Imagine one moment you are driving down the road and the next moment you are standing outside of your own body watching emergency crews clean up the horrific crash you were involved in.  This is how If I Stay by Gayle Forman begins. Seventeen-year-old Mia, on track for Julliard school, has no recollection of the [...]

Ron’s Big Mission by Rose Blue and Corinne J. Naden, Illustrated by Don Tate

Ron’s Big Mission by Rose Blue and Corinne J. Naden and illustrated by Don Tate is the fictionalized account of a real incident which happened in astronaut Ron McNair’s life when he was ten years old.
Ron McNair lost his life in 1986 when the space shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after takeoff.   But losing his life [...]

My Brother, The Robot by Bonny Becker

“We don’t want to pressure you, son.  But we’ve ordered the Perfect Son.  He’s arriving today.”  Thus begins My Brother, The Robot by Bonny Becker.  Chip isn’t the perfect son.  He’s far from it.  His room is messy, he sleeps in, he slurps at the table, he forgets his multiplication tables, and he has lost [...]