Spring is for sprucing up your your little book worm’s reading list and BookBar has a line-up of April author events to help! Add these five excellent titles to your family’s collection. 1. Saturday, April 7 at 2 p.m. for …
Sandhya Menon is Coming to BookBar and the BookWorms Are in Love
So you’ve probably heard that Sandhya Menon is coming to BookBar on August 20th at 4 PM, right? I, Emma the BookWorm, a young woman who refuses to do anything but hide in her room and read stories about Jack …
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Grown Ups! We Dare you to Read Without Walls
A few months ago, I sat with a group of four nine-year-olds on tiny chairs. Most of them were meeting for the first time with the intention of picking out new books and talking about the books they had read …
The Hearts of Men Are …
It’s a strange social political moment to ruminate on the white middle class American male. The patriarchy. The big guys. The ones that ever seem to be in the driver’s seat. In The Hearts of Men, Nickolas Butler crafts a …
Lillian- I Felt a Funeral In My Brain
Title: I Felt A Funeral In My Brian Author: Will Walton Publisher: Push Release Date: May 29, 2018 This novel deals with heavy topics, but is an amazing read. The main character, Avery, struggles with the absence of his alcoholic …
Vivian/Emma/Jaqueline- Ghost Boys
Title: Ghost Boys Author: Jewell Parker Rhodes Publisher: Little, Brown Books Release Date: April 17, 2018 Vivian-Ghost Boys This story is about a boy named Jerome who is the narrator, and the story switches between when he is living and …
Griffin-Following Baxter
Title: Following Baxter Author: Barbara Kerley Publisher: Harper Collins Publisher Publication Date: April 3, 2018 Have you ever wondered what Miss Frizzle does when she heads home after her Magic School Bus field trips? In “Following Baxter,” we don’t have to …
Announcing 1st Annual Burning Book Festival
Burning Book A city in the far-flung suburbs. A culture of literacy. A network of readers and introverts Festivals are all the rage today and literary festivals are certainly no exception. BookBar is excited to announce the first annual Burning …
Samantha-The Astonishing Color of After
Title: The Astonishing Color of After Author: Emily X.R. Pan Publisher: Little, Brown Books Release Date: March 20, 2018 Leigh Chen Sanders is a half Asian and half white teenager who is absolutely sure about one thing: When her mother …
Griffin-The 11:11 Wish
Title: The 11:11 Wish Author: Kim Tomsic Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books Release Date: February 13, 2018 Imagine that you just moved from Colorado to Arizona. You’re starting at a new middle school, ready to put your entire embarrassing past behind you. Now …
Chloe-The Night Diary
Title: The Night Diary Author: Veera Hiranandani Publisher: Dial Publishers Release Date: March 6, 2018 As Veera Hiranandani on quoted in her book, The Night Diary, “It was the answer I had always wanted to hear. It almost made everything we had …
