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Interest Level: 5-8
Reading Level: 5.3
Lexile: 820L
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Seventh-grader Mango Delight Fuller's BFF Brooklyn gets a new cell phone. Mango beats Brooklyn in a race at track practice. Then Mango accidentally breaks Brooklyn's now phone. She loses her BFF and her spot on the track team, and even costs her father his job. Brooklyn plots her revenge by signing Mango up to audition for the school musical. Her plan backfires when Mango not only wins the lead role, but becomes a YouTube sensation and attracts the attention of the school's queen bee, Hailey Jo.
Realistic fiction is one of my favorite genres. And this novel is a good one! I thought that at the end of the story that those peers that end up being her friends is realistic with a splash of that Disney ending that I love. I highly recommend this book.
Interest Level: 5-8
Reading Level: 5.0
Lexile: 640L
Genre: Fantasy
Once a year the people of the Protectorate leave the youngest child in the forest for the witch to eat. This is suppose to appease the witch and prevent her from turning her wrath on the town and its people. But what the people of the Protectorate don't know is that the witch is kind. She journeys to the other side of the forest and finds the babies homes.
Slow to start, this book was hard for me to get through. Although Xan, the forest witch, and Luna, her adopted granddaughter, were the main characters. I cared more for the character of Antain. This could be that I could relate more to him. I am on the fence as to whether or not I would recommend this book even though it is an ORCA nomination.
Interest Level: 5-8 
