Reviews written by Adrien Carter, Newsletter Manager and Staff Reviewer

In Better Catch Up, Krishna Kumar, you are along Krishna’s journey across India to get her first kiss. She’s spent all summer in India flirting with her neighbor, Amrit, and now she’s to return home without getting a kiss from him. Her flight gets delayed, though, and she finds that...

Dino Mode Activated returns with the children from Dinosaur Pie and this time they are on a new adventure. Oleg is going on a camping trip with his friends, Rory and Daria, along with Rory’s cat, Burp, who still turns into a dinosaur at times. Oleg’s mom has just got...

In More Hands, Sami and his grandfather are getting ready to make pishmaniyah, and Sami’s grandfather is teaching Sami the secret ingredient. What I Liked: This book is a simple and sweet story about a kid and his grandfather that highlights the passing down...

In They Want Us Dead, Sam Tombs and their arch internet nemesis are being forced to live together. Sam’s channel is focused on getting eyes on crimes against LGBTQ+ teens, and now they’ve been invited to a true crime content creator event. This is a great opportunity until it seems...

T is a giant dinosaur who has just hatched, but unfortunately for him, he hatched millions of years after dinosaurs went extinct. T is pretty lonely until a family of chickens adopts him which is is thrilled about because they are his closest living relatives. T has a new little...

Sage love dresses and has worn them on all her adventures. She has a princess dress from her grandpa, a sundress from grandma, a bunny dress from Nana, a fancy dress from Papa and Gigi, a dancing dress from her cousin, a mountain bike dress from her dad and a...

In Destiny Ink: Sleepover Surprise, Destiny Ink has a sleepover coming up with her best friend, Olivia. The plan is for the two of them to camp outside in the backyard. Destiny is a little bit nervous since she has never had a sleepover so she decides to practice. She...

Dayton and Farshid are in their first year of high school and seem to be complete opposites. Dayton shouts the f-slur during a school event towards a visiting author which sets off events that make both him and Farshid look into things about themselves that they had been ignoring. Dayton...

Sam’s best friend is moving away right in the middle of building their treehouse and he is worried about what’s going to happen now. Now Martha has moved into Milo’s house and Sam is angry and upset so he can’t see past missing Milo so he rejects Martha’s attempt at...

Unbreakable follows Minoru (Min) and his family during World War II showing his experience in an incarceration center. What I Liked: This book begins by introducing you to Minoru (Min) and his family before the tone shifts for this family as things change for...

The Love That Made You is a picture book that introduces children to the idea of a higher power embodied by love which connects us all. This book does this through fun rhyming verses that go with the soft illustrations throughout this book. What...

What I Liked: This is a cute and cozy book that you will want to pick up again and again to escape into this fantasy. Each moment goes by quickly, and the pacing of the book is perfect as the world-building goes side by side with the story. ...

Cassie Davis is moving back to her hometown of upstate New York after a meltdown at her old school, which turned into an autism diagnosis. Cassie’s mom is hoping that this mom will let Cassie feel normal, and Cassie is hoping to regain the ease she had with her old...

Breathe Deep is a sing-along that works to help children quiet their bodies and mind to prepare for bedtime. What I Liked: The repetitive pattern throughout this book makes it easy to read aloud and for younger audiences to follow and anticipate what is...

There’s a house just on the outskirts of town that has many grannies who share incredible stories. The grannies all have their own superpowers and combined they are an amazing team that can defeat all villains. What I Liked: This book opens by introducing...