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Guest Blog: This Book Will Inspire Young Readers To Confidently Share Their Ideas

Note from Elena Reads: I’m excited that another one of my best friends is doing a guest review for my

Written in first-person, with accompanying comic-style pictures, I Am Martin Luther King, Jr. by Brad Meltzer will teach young kids

Lauren and her best friend since forever, Tara, are inseparable. They do everything together, yet somehow Tara is always the

Danny is a crayon in a pencil box. Everywhere he goes, he never seems to fit in. In San Diego,

I am Black and Filipino, and my ancestors came from Africa and Asia. I have always wondered what it would

Three souls are brought together under one moon to witness something unforgettable. The strangers soon become unlikely friends. In Wendy

Karina Chopra is American. So is her friend Chris, her mom and dad, and her grandfather who she calls Papa.

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s El Deafo – a superhero who can hear her teachers everywhere they go

The beginning of this compelling story immediately hooked me in. It starts with the narrator describing how her dead sister

Some kids don’t understand the Constitution of the United States, or why we need one. Some kids hate having to memorize