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Patricia’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Patricia’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Patricia Hruby Powell
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Patricia Powell
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When the World Tips Over
by Jandy Nelson (Goodreads Author)
5 copies
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September 22, 2025
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| A 16-year-old boy roams the streets of 1986 Rome while his mother works as an antique book restorer in “Run Away With Me” (Scholastic 2025) by Brian Selznick. First the boy sees a shadow, then a voice, then a beautiful Italian boy who looks like the ...more | |
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Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves
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"I don't even know how to rate this book. Like, it's an important book. And I liked the characters. But it's also possibly the bleakest book I've ever read and I hated so much of what happens in the story because it filled me with so much rage.
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Jake is bullied throughout middle school and responds by wanting to disappear. He develops anorexia nervosa, an eating disorder that effects more girls than boys, but an affliction from which more boys than girls die. This novel in verse, “Louder Tha ...more |
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| From 1879 Mississippi, Lettie and her impoverished Black family set out for Nebraska in a covered wagon, part of the westward migration in “One Big Open Sky” (Holiday House 2024) by Lesa Cline-Ransome. Her father made the decision to go, as was so of ...more | |
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“Sometimes we don't hold hands
just so people don't stare.
But sometimes-
SOMETIMES-
you just have to hold on.”
― Loving vs. Virginia: A Documentary Novel of the Landmark Civil Rights Case
just so people don't stare.
But sometimes-
SOMETIMES-
you just have to hold on.”
― Loving vs. Virginia: A Documentary Novel of the Landmark Civil Rights Case
“Well, I guess that;s a good move,
you asking everyone
'cause I might not've come
if it were just you and me."
He takes his eyes off the road
right
when I take a look at him
and he's got
this big smirky smile
on his face.
I laugh and say,
"Maybe you had better watch the road.”
― Loving vs. Virginia: A Documentary Novel of the Landmark Civil Rights Case
you asking everyone
'cause I might not've come
if it were just you and me."
He takes his eyes off the road
right
when I take a look at him
and he's got
this big smirky smile
on his face.
I laugh and say,
"Maybe you had better watch the road.”
― Loving vs. Virginia: A Documentary Novel of the Landmark Civil Rights Case
Polls
What book should we read in April?
You may write in titles, provided the book is a 2018 Newbery contender and already published.
You may write in titles, provided the book is a 2018 Newbery contender and already published.
The Someday birds
(write-in)
The Playbook
(write-in)
Hello, Universe
(write-in)
One Amazing Elephant by Linda Oatman High
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Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly
(write-in)
see you in the cosmos
(write-in)
the playbook
(write-in)
144 total votes
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