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A three-sentence review of More Than Just a Pretty Face by Syed M. Masood. Published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. Danyal Jilani knows who he is: a very good-looking guy, someone [...]

A three-sentence review of Unscripted by Nicole Kronzer. Published by Amulet Books. It’s rare to have a funny book that also deals with the heavy topics of sexual harassment, sexual assault, and [...]

A three-sentence review of Not So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles. Published by Quill Tree Books. Del, daydreaming in church, follows his unrequited crush Kiera and stands up with other youth in [...]

A three-sentence review of What I Carry by Jennifer Longo published by Random House Books for Young Readers. Muiriel is eleven months from aging out of the foster care system and like her [...]

A three-sentence review of This Is All Your Fault by Aminah Mae Safi published by Feiwel & Friends. Eli, Rinn, Daniella, and Imogen work for an independent bookstore in Chicago. In the next [...]

A three-sentence review of The How and the Why by Cynthia Hand published by Harper Teen. Cass was adopted by good and kind parents and her life has been mostly smooth sailing for eighteen years, [...]

A three-sentence review of When You Were Everything by Ashley Woodfolk published by Delacorte Press. Cleo and Layla are best (and only) friends, or they were before Layla started branching out in [...]

A three-sentence review of This Light Between Us by Andrew Fukuda published by Tor Teen. It’s the mid-1930s and a Japanese-American boy in Washington state begins a pen pal relationship with the [...]

Three-sentence review of Be Not Far From Me by Mindy McGinnis. Published by Katherine Tegen Books This three-sentence review needs only one sentence: Man vs. Nature, but with teenage girl! Given [...]

A three-sentence review of The Voting Both by Brandy Colbert published by Disney-Hyperion Marva is fired up to vote for the first time; Duke is eager to check a trip to the voting booth off his [...]