Squint by Chad Morris & Shelly Brown

Interest Level: 3-6
Lexile: HL560L

Reading Level: 4.1
Genre: Realistic Fiction

Flint Minett has keratoconus, an eye disease, but desperately wants to win a comic book art contest so that he and his new friend McKell Panganiban will be better accepted at middle school.

I enjoyed this book a lot. I found the story believable. I cared about the characters. I routed for Flint and McKell and became a fan of Danny's. I highly recommend this book to readers of all ages that can enjoy a young adult novel.

Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy

 Interest Level: 5-8                                                     
 Lexile: 700L                                                                                                     Genre: Fantasy

When twelve-year-old Stephanie inherits her weird uncle's estate, she must join forces with Skulduggery Pleasant, a skeleton mage, to save the world from the Faceless Ones.

I enjoyed the concept of the book but I felt that it had to many fight scenes and not enough of plot development. Still I would recommend it to any middle school that likes a good battle against some magical bad guys.