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    You won’t want to put down Jennifer Ziegler’s Worser

    A socially awkward 12-year-old boy learns how to adapt following his mother’s stroke in Jennifer Ziegler’s new middle-grade novel, Worser.

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    Mini Review: The Book That Did Not Want to Be Read

    Discover a book that will do anything to remain unused in David Sundin’s The Book That Did Not Want to Be Read.

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    Get your kid in the kitchen with The Complete Cookbook for Teen Chefs

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    Jennifer Yen’s Love, Decoded is fun STEM & rom-com mashup

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    Three Musketeers get feminist update in Lillie Lainoff’s One for All

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    Dhonielle Clayton& Sona Charaipotra’s Rumor Game is intense

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    You won’t want to put down Jennifer Ziegler’s Worser

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    Autism Month middle-grade books celebrate differences

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    Karina Yan Glaser’s Duet for Home is excellent look at homelessness

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    Mini Review: The Book That Did Not Want to Be Read

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