Charles Joe Jackson's Guide to NOT Reading
Tommy Greenwald
FIC GRE

Middle schooler Charlie Joe is proud of his success at avoiding reading, but eventually his schemes go too far. (NoveList)




The Girl is Murder
Kathryn Miller Haines
FIC HAI

In 1942 New York City, fifteen-year-old Iris grieves for her mother who committed suicide and for the loss of her life of privilege, and secretly helps her father with his detective business since he, having lost a leg at Pearl Harbor, struggles to make ends meet.

Wildwood
Colin Meloy
FIC MEL
When her baby brother is kidnapped by crows, seventh-grader Prue McKeel ventures into the forbidden Impassable Wilderness--a dangerous and magical forest in the middle of Portland, Oregon--and soon finds herself involved in a war among the various inhabitants.

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Scribbling Women: True Tales from Astonishing Lives
Marthe Jocelyn

Explores the writing of women throughout history, looking at letters by Margaret Catchpole, a novel by Doris Pilkey, a cookbook by Isabella Beeton, journal entries by Sei Shonagan, and other works by women around the world.