Alpine, Rachele

This is an uplifting installment in a very positive series, and while this volume does not show the club engaged in community service as the prior ones do, it presents upbeat messages about spending time in nature, speaking up for yourself, and taking much-needed breaks from technology. A solid addition to chapter book collections.

One school library's Graffiti Books program lets students connect and have "conversations" by writing in books. It also keeps some previously weeded titles in the stacks.

A readable selection that will find a home in large public library collections, but not a necessary purchase.

Gr 9 Up—When her father gets a job as the basketball coach at an exclusive private school, Kate sees the included tuition as a chance to escape her old school and the sympathetic glances of classmates and teachers who are aware of her mother's death...