Monthly Archives: July 2019

From Twinkle, With Love by Sandhya Menon

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Twinkle Mehra has a dream to be an award-winning film director. She wants to tell stories. Film geek, Sahil Roy, who has had a crush on her since elementary school, encourages Twinkle to enter the Midsummer Night arts festival. He offers to produce her film. Twinkle has had a long-time crush on Sahil’s popular twin brother Neil. She has a secret fantasy that someday Neil will notice her as girlfriend material, and move her from her perceived lower social status in her high school’s popularity rankings. As Twinkle and Sahil begin planning and organizing the film, Twinkle begins having feelings for Sahil. But emails from a secret admirer who signs his correspondence with N complicate matters for Twinkle.

Dry by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

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The drought in Southern California continues to escalate. When Arizona and Nevada back out of the reservoir relief deal, the taps run dry.  Crowds rush to nearby stores to grab water off the shelves. Soon neighborhoods are without water except for those who prepared.  Alyssa and her younger brother, Garrett, find themselves in dire circumstances when their parents do not return from seeking water at a desalination station on the coast.  Their Eagle Scout neighbor, Kelton, offers to help Alyssa find answers.  The trio is thrown into chaotic situations as the SoCal population turns desperate for water.  When it becomes apparent that help will not arrive in time from government agencies, the trio must work together to survive the Tap-Out.

Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II by Alan Gratz

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Michael O’Shaunessy, originally from Ireland, lives in Nazi Germany with his parents. Michael has joined the Hitler Youth, but Michael has a secret.  Michael and his parents are spies for the Allies passing on information and occasionally assisting downed pilots to escape capture. Then Michael happens upon the plans for Projekt 1065, a Nazi secret plan that could change the outcome of the war. Michael is prepared to take even bigger risks to get the plans to the Allies!

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

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Elizabeth Acevedo’s award-winning book introduces Xiomara Batista, the Poet X.  Xiomara lives in Harlem with Twin, Mami, and Papi.  Mami is deeply religious and strict.  Xiomara is feisty and fierce.  She pours her thoughts and feelings out as poetry in the leatherbound notebook her twin, Xavier, gave to her.  Poetry is her passion, and Xiomara aches for a regular teenage life outside her mother’s strict boundaries. Xiomara is asked to join the Spoken Word Club at school, something she knows will directly confront Mami’s rules, and yet Xiomara isn’t sure she has the courage to speak her words out loud in front of others.