In the book, Where the Watermelons Grow, by Cindy Baldwin, it follows a girl named Della. Della has lived with her family for her whole life. But when her mom goes had to go to the hospital, she knows what she had to do. She has to take care of her family with the help of others around her. While she is working hard to keep her family together, her dad is having trouble to saving their farm. She needs to help heal her mother and her family for good. Della has to learn to love her family for who they all are. Will Della learn to accept her family for who they are? Will she help her family get out of the life problems. To find out what happens next read, Where the Watermelons Grow, by Cindy Baldwin.

This book connects to the book Tight, by Torrey Maldonado. Both Brian and Della have struggles finding to trust and believe in people. Brian has to know if he should trust his friend Mike and Della has to believe that her mom is still her mom. Read the book Tight, By Torrey Maldonado but don’t forget to read the book, Where the Watermelons Grow, by Cindy Baldwin.

In the book, The Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus, by Dusti Bowling follows a girl named Aven who has no arms. Her family has to move from Kansas to Arizona and at her new school she has troubles making new friends. At lunch, she usually eats alone but one time she meets Connor, a kid that has Tourette syndrome. In the next few months, they started to become really close friends and try to solve the mystery of Joe Cavanaugh, the mysterious owner of the place were Aven parents work. Aven has to try to find more friends and keep the same friends for her to be happy. Read, The Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus, by Dusti Bowling, to find out what happens to Aven.

This book connects to the book, Tight, by Torrey Maldonado because both of the characters has struggles in life like Aven not having many friends and Brian trying to make good choices without peer pressure. In Tight, Brian gets a new friend named Mike. But when Mike makes some bad choices, Brian doesn’t know if he should stay friends with Mike, or if he should find new friends. Read, Tight, by Torrey Maldonado, but don’t forget to read, The Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus, by Dusti Bowling.

Have you ever been in a tight situation and you don’t know how to get out of it. Well if you have then maybe you should read the book, Tight, by Torrey Maldonado. The main character Bryan knows what’s tight for him, reading comics, drawing, and hanging out with no drama. But sooner or later that will change. And that later is now. Bryan meets a new kid named Mike and they become great friends. They get really close, close that they call themselves brothers. But Mike starts to do bad and risky stuff that puts both of them in danger. Bryan has to chose to go with his instinct to leave Mike or go with his friend. Will Bryan realize he is going on the wrong path. Will he ever stop having drama in his life. Well if you want to find out read, Tight, by Torrey Maldonado to find out what happens to Bryan.

“Candice picked up the letter, thinking it was an old piece of mail that had been used as a bookmark long ago. She flipped it over, looking for the address. Instead, she found a small note. Find the path. Solve the puzzle.” This is just the beginning of the journey that Candice awaits. In the book, The Parker Inheritance, by Varian Johnson, it follows the story of a young girl named Candice Miller. She is a normal girl who is spending the summer at her Grandma’s house that has passed away. One day, she went into the addict with her friend Brandon trying to find some new books to read, but new books isn’t what she found. She found a letter that her Grandma had placed just for her. The letter said that there was a hidden treasure that a modern day person would try hard and fail to succeed. Her Grandma tried and failed. With the help of her friends and her brain, she has another chance. Will Candice succeed and find what the letter holds? Or will she try and fail like her past relatives? Read, The Parker Inheritance, by Varian Johnson to find out how the story unfolds. 

In the book, Unbound, by Ann E. Burg, it follows a girl named Grace. Grace and all her family are slaves. One day Grace has to leave her family to go work at their Master’s house. Grace doesn’t want to leave her family and doesn’t know what to do when she gets to the house. She soon learns what she needs to do and how she needs to do it but she still isn’t treated great. When her master’s talk about giving her away she is tempted to leave.

The problem in the story is that she has to leave her family to live with people who are going to treat her bad. She has to learn how to work harder but not to show it. She was taught to lay low and not make a scene at anytime of the day.

I would suggest this book who are interested in the time period where slavery was on its up rise. I would rate this book a four out of five because I like the story line but at parts it can be very confusing. Even though it talks about her struggles, I wish it went into more detail about her struggles in life.

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Nikki Demere is not like any other kid. She has the hands of a speeding bullet. Her dad went to prison when she was young and her mom left her with her grandma. Being with her grandma, she got taught the ways of pick-pocketing. Unfortunately, her grandma died so she was sent into foster care. House after house after house and she went back to the center.

One day a guy named Eddie came to see her to tell her that he needed her to help a family that is going into the WIT SEC program. They were in great danger and she was there only hope. She would have to erase all of her past life to save this family. Read, Greetings from Witness Protection, by Jake Burt to find out what happens to Nikki in the end.

In the book, Lu, by Jason Reynolds, it follows a boy named Lu. The problem of the story is that Lu he has to put his ego to the side and worry about his family and his track meet. Lu is a one and a million kids. He was an albino baby so he doesn’t have any pigment in his skin. Because of this, he wishes that he could have a brother so he could see what he would look like. But the problem is that his mom can’t have kids. All of the sudden, his mom and dad surprises him and says that his mom is pregnant. His parents say he has the responsibility of naming his new sibling. He is a really good runner and wins a lot of races. But, he is worried about the championship meet because he has to run a new race, hurdles. Will Lu be confident enough to do good in his race? Read, Lu, by Jason Reynolds to find out what happens.

A book that connects to, Lu, is the book, Fantasy League, by Mike Lupica. In both books, they have kids with problems in life like Lu being albino and Charlie having to take over as being the coach at a young age. Also in both stories, they have kids that are passionate about sports. Read, Fantasy League, by Mike Lupica but don’t forget to read the book, Lu, by Jason Reynolds.  

In the book, Lu, by Jason Reynolds, it follows a boy named Lu. The problem of the story is that Lu he has to put his ego to the side and worry about his family and his track meet. Lu is a one and a million kids. He was an albino baby so he doesn’t have any pigment in his skin. Because of this, he wishes that he could have a brother so he could see what he would look like. But the problem is that his mom can’t have kids. All of the sudden, his mom and dad surprises him and says that his mom is pregnant. His parents say he has the responsibility of naming his new sibling. He is a really good runner and wins a lot of races. But, he is worried about the championship meet because he has to run a new race, hurdles. Will Lu be confident enough to do good in his race? Read, Lu, by Jason Reynolds to find out what happens.

A book that connects to, Lu, is the book, Fantasy League, by Mike Lupica. In both books, they have kids with problems in life like Lu being albino and Charlie having to take over as being the coach at a young age. Also in both stories, they have kids that are passionate about sports. Read, Fantasy League, by Mike Lupica but don’t forget to read the book, Lu, by Jason Reynolds.

In the book, Patina, by Jason Reynolds it follows a girl named Patina (Patty) Jones. She works really hard in school and is a really good runner. Her father passed and both of her mom’s legs got amputated. She has to take care of her little sister and she runs for her mom because of her amputations. School and track take up most of her time so she always wants do stuff for her sister but it ends up being her aunt that does it for her. She has problems at school and she doesn’t have many friends. She has to research about a girl named Frida and that takes up most of her time at home.

She has been really nervous because she lost her race that she should of ran and won and she just started the 800 relay. She has a lot of peer pressure and here is her preparation,” I glanced up at the crowd. At first everyone was a smear of color and sound. Except for a few people. Then a few people came into focus. Cotton. I couldn’t tell if she was winking or not, but she might’ve been. I could see Maddy, but even more, hear her, hear her screaming my name as if it was just her and me in a tunnel. And next to her, for the first time in forever, Ma. Her arms raised high in the air, her fingers tickling the sky. I couldn’t hear her, but I could see her lips forming a P. Pancake. She might’ve been saying Patty. But she had to be saying Pancake. TO DO: Just run. And Win. Here we go.” To find out what happens read, “Patina”, by Jason Reynolds

In the book, Ghost, by Jason Reynolds, it follows a boy named Castle Cranshaw (aka Ghost).  His life is different than most people’s lives. When he was little, his dad tried to kill him and his mother. His Dad got arrested and he has to live his life knowing it will be different forever. He gets bullied a lot in school which gets him into trouble. One day, he goes down to the track at a nearby park and he sees a team practice. He notices this one really cocky kid and he wants to show him that he is not all that great. He races the kid and after the coach wants him on the team. To be on the team, he has to do good in school or he will have to leave the defenders. Read Ghost by Jason Reynolds to find out what happens to Ghost and if he can stay on the team.

A book written by the same author “Miles Morales Spiderman”. Miles is not that great of a student and he gets in trouble a lot at school. His dad and his brother were bad kids growing up and did bad things that are affecting Mile’s life. His uncle tried to kill him and he barely made it alive.  He worries that his powers don’t work anymore because they are always going off around this one weird teacher. Read, “Miles Morales Spiderman” by Jason Reynolds but don’t forget to read “Ghost” by the same author Jason Reynolds.