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HYR Robopocalypse (Robopocalypse, Book 1) by Daniel H. Wilson
?*Here is an excellent review of this book by Rick Riordan. Scroll down to near the bottom of the page.
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HYR Farmer in the Sky* by Robert A. Heinlein
*This was my first Robert A. Heinlein book.
I don't know. Maybe. I read a bunch of Heinlein like Stranger in a Strange Land when I was about 19, and I liked it. Then I took a women's studies science fiction class and decided Heinlein was the enemy, when I was about 21. I haven't tried him again, since. I don't know if I've ever read any juveniles by him.HYR Artemis by Andy Weir
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HYR Charming (Pax Arcana, Book 1) by Elliott James
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(I haven't gotten around to Artemis myself yet, so I'm not recommending, just wondering.)HNR Charming, but it seems like one I might like, if I were in the right mood.
HYR An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
? I know you don't tend to do realistic fiction, but this is gorgeously written. (This one I've read.)
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I know you like Jim Butcher. HYR The Aeronaut's Windlass (The Cinder Spires, Book 1)
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This one I've read! Here's an indication of how much I liked The Aeronaut's Windlass: I finished it a few days before Halloween in 2015 and made a steampunk pirate captain's costume for myself. I loved it! Yes, I recommend it!HYR Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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HYR The Chemist by Stephenie Meyer*
?*Totally different direction for Stephenie Meyer of Twilight fame. This one is actually getting good reviews.
I didn't watch "60 Minutes" on Sunday, but I watched an explanation with the news director and producers on OPrah's report about a new memorial for people who were lynched, on showing photographs of people who were lynched on 60 Minutes. People seemed really upset by these photographs. Too few people know who Emmett Till was, but I understand your not wanting to read that.I'm going to give Stephanie Meyer next book a pass, I think. Do you think you'll read it?
HYR The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
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HNR The Poet X, but based on the reviews here on Goodreads, I recommended it to our school librarian. I generally don't read realistic fiction, but it looks like something we should have in our collection.
HYR A Good Man Gone* (Mercy Watts, Book 1) by A.W. Hartoin
*I like the author, but this is a departure from her urban fantasy. I just started this book.
HNR. Based on others' reviews here, I think not. Did you love it? I tend to not seek out mysteries. HYR An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
? I've just started it this morning, but I like the setting.
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HNR An Unkindness of Ghosts
HYR Girl, Stolen* (Girl, Book 1) by April Henry
?*Excellent so far. It may be one of our 10th grade reads in 2018-19.
HYR Sold by Patricia McCormick
?I taught it 10+ years ago, my students were pleasantly surprised by it, and unfortunately it's not dated. It also checks boxes because it's a novel written in verse, it's short, and it's set in Nepal and India. Maybe it's one to have in the library and suggest it to students who like Girl, Stolen.
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HYR Whale Talk* by Chris Crutcher
?*Another book being considered.
Yes. Whale Talk is another one I've taught. Racism, among many others things, in rural Idaho. I don't think there are books by Chris Crutcher that I wouldn't recommend. He's a former social worker and it shows. Though he's got a brand new one I haven't read.Caveat: characters in this novel call other characters terrible names, and do terrible things. I had parents sign a permission slip because just about everything I taught was on the banned or challenged book list that year.
What about the more contemporary The Hate U Give or Dreamland Burning or All American Boys?
(Schenectady HS-- or maybe it was MS students-- read All American Boys in a lesson with police. So my book group read it, too.)
All of these are realistic, so not your normal thing, oh hey, could you teach something you like, maybe like HYR Daniel José Older's YA uf set in BrooklynShadowshaper
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HYR Scourged* (Iron Druid, Book 9) by Kevin Hearne
?*This is the last book in the Iron Druid series. If you've read it, what did you think of the ending?
HNR. Yet. I am some number of books behind in this series. Maybe this summer I can catch up!HYR
by Colson Whitehead The Underground Railroad? It's alternate history, sf and really good and unusual.
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HYR Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World* by Vicki Myron
*Dewey is on my tbr list for summer.
HNRHYR Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
? I'm not recommending it in this case, just asking. I've borrowed it from the library and not yet gotten around to it.
Yes! I was given a copy in 2012, by a member of the press who interviewed a lot of ya sf/f authors. I gave it five stars. (She doesn't work there anymore.)HYR Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
? I've just started rereading it for my RL book club next week.
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HYR Tomlinson Hill: Sons of Slaves, Sons of Slaveholders* by Chris Tomlinson
?One of the paraeducators in my school loaned me this book for the summer which she highly recommends that I read.
HNR.Did you see one of the reviews here on GR that said listen to Terry Gross' interview on WHYY "Fresh Air" with the author and the football player first.
Here's one that may be for you or your husband:
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston
. This book was written from 1927-1932, but only published this year.
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HYR Robopocalypse (Robopocalypse, Book 1) by Daniel H. Wilson
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HYR Carswell's Guide to Being Lucky* by Marissa Meyer
?*One of the best short stories in the Lunar Chronicles series.
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HYR Earth! My First 4.54 Billion Years* by Stacy McAnulty
?*Haven't read, but it looks wonderful!
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HYR Girl, Stolen by April Henry*
? *April Henry is speaking at the high school where I teach on October 31st.
Cool! Your librarian/you/ others on the faculty are very good at arranging things like this!HNR.
HYR Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
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Our librarian is very cool and she made the arrangements.
HYR the sequel to Inexcusable (Keir Sarafian, Book 1), Irreversible* (Keir Sarafian, Book 2) by Chris Lynch
?*I am currently reading the sequel. It was six years between the first book and the rest of the story.
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Having finished The Star Trek DS9 novel Original Sin I don't recommend it for any but completists.
HYR Love, Hate & Other Filters by Samira Ahmed