Rachel Kerns

Jan 16, 2024 | hbook.com | Luann Toth |Michelle Lee |Rachel Kerns |Dean Schneider

The Blood Years by Elana K. ArnoldHigh School    Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins    400 pp. 10/23    9780062990853    $19.99e-book ed. 9780062990877    $10.99In this historical novel set in Czernowitz, Romania, thirteen-year-old Rieke and her beautiful, headstrong older sister, Astra, live with their depressive mother and religiously observant grandfather, Opa, a jeweler and business owner.

Jan 9, 2024 | hbook.com | Eboni Njoku |Michelle Lee |Rachel Kerns |Dean Schneider

Gone Wolf by Amber McBrideMiddle School    Feiwel    352 pp. 10/23    9781250850492    $17.99e-book ed. 9781250850485    $10.99McBride (We Are All So Good at Smiling, rev. 1/23) begins this compelling novel in the year 2111: a girl known as Inmate Eleven has lived in a small cell her whole life.

Jan 4, 2024 | hbook.com | Rachel Kerns |Betty Carter |Jerry Dear |Amanda Toledo

The Totally True Story of Gracie Byrne by Shannon TakaokaHigh School    Candlewick    384 pp. 10/23    9781536228786    $19.99e-book ed. 9781536234312    $19.99It’s 1987, and Gracie is the new girl at her Pittsburgh high school; her family has recently moved in with her grandmother, who has Alzheimer’s. After some embarrassing encounters with her new classmates, Gracie wishes she could be more interesting and less awkward.

Nov 21, 2023 | hbook.com | Nicholl Denice Montgomery |Julie Hakim Azzam |Rachel Kerns

Those Pink Mountain Nights by Jen FergusonHigh School    Heartdrum/HarperCollins    352 pp. 9/23    9780063086210    $19.99e-book ed. 9780063086234    $10.99Kiki, who is Black and Cree, has been gone for five months when the book begins, and the police have stopped looking for her. Her friend and fellow First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Student Association member Berlin, a high achiever living with depression, and Cam, Berlin’s longtime childhood rival, feel Kiki’s loss profoundly.

Feb 21, 2023 | hbook.com | Rachel Kerns |Emma Carbone |Jennifer Hubert Swan |Sarah Ellis

by Rachel L. Kerns Feb 21, 2023 | Filed in Book Reviews In this at once funny and moving novel, it’s been just over a year since seventeen-year-old Asher’s mom died in a car accident, and “everyone says... Four for the Road by K. J. ReillyHigh School    Atheneum    288 pp. 8/22    9781665902281    $19.99e-book ed.