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My June pick for #12booksof2024 with @Andrew65 I actually listened to the audiobook with a friend. Her class was reading it and she wanted to read it ahead of time. Long car ride from Florida to SC meant we listened to most of it, and I finished it at home. So so good!

This was a novel in verse about a girl who is struggling more with her neurodivergence as she gets into middle school. She comes to realize that she‘s on the autism spectrum and other members of her family probably are as well. She becomes an advocate for herself as she learns there are others who feel the same and more about accommodations that can be helpful.

#TRS2024 #NovelInVerse #MiddleGrade

It was a strange feeling to read this story about German POWs in lower Michigan during WWII. I never knew POW camps existed in Michigan until I was an adult, and to discover this story has a connection to the teeny (teeny) tiny town I spent my early childhood in was just bizarre. I enjoyed the verse and the POVs of these two characters. I did not enjoy the very abrupt ending, though it's certainly fitting in any book on WWII.

“ trench foot, as it eats away at my feet. We are now all barefoot as our feet don't fit in our shoes.“

This book can connect students to events of the past because it shows and allows you to feel everything the children are experiencing throughout this book. It is filled with adventure so it would be engaging, but tells of an important part of history and an event that changed the world. This would be a great read-aloud or a part of a history or English lesson. I remember reading a similar story and it stuck with me a great memory.

Lifeboat 12 by Susan Hood 2018 is a Historical fiction. This book is about a boy from England during WW2. His parents signed him up to travel to Canada to escape the war, but on their way across the ocean, the ship was struck by a missile. they have to figure out to survive in a lifeboat in the hope they will be rescued. This book is based on a true story. The description of everything was great and you feel you are in the story. A must read.

A story of a thirteen year old boy that gets bullied at school and develops an eating disorder. It becomes so severe he gets sent to an inpatient facility . He struggles with opening up to his doctors & peers, trying different foods ,and dealing with his beloved but sick grandmother.

In just a few words, Fipps makes abundantly clear how it feels to worry about bills, have no where to shower, and no food for money. She also paints a pretty rosy picture of friendship and the generosity of others.

In an effort to create the perfect race we know a lot of what Germany went through in WW2 but often only focus on the Jewish people. Being disabled also puts you at risk and being Deaf one of those. Going into hiding or on the run to remain out of the institutions- holding cells for those yet to be euthanized. Others were sterilized. This is a free form poetry book written through the eyes of a young deaf teen during this period in our history...

A good realistic book about family problems. Personally, I think its kind of mid and not really my taste. It ends on a cliffhanger which wasn't that pleasant, if the book is going to be mid why add a cliffhanger? It just makes it worse. 💙