Life goes fast and summers seem to go faster each year. Here is a quick grab list for young adult readers looking for some fabulous reads that aren't on the summer AP reading list. If nothing snags …
Here is a quick grab list for middle grade readers looking for some fabulous reads. If nothing snags your eye, see recommendations from prior years. Happy reading!
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Here is the round-up of the winner and honor books for 2023. We were particularly fond of the the winner, Freewater. All the books, while generally solid, were diverse. The Last Mapmaker and Freewa…
Kimberley Woodhouse returns to the Grand Canyon for her second Secrets of the Canyon book, A Gem of Truth. It is not required to read the first book in this series, but reading the first helps fill in…
Yes, still in catch-up mode here at Compass Book Ratings, but better late than never. If there was a theme to this year's Newbery line-up it would be family and storytelling. Regarding genre, it was…
Sometimes one wants to put something extra under the Christmas tree. A book is always great, but it is always amazing to get a complete boxed set. However, boxed sets are a little tricky for a few r…
I cannot tell a lie--I really love this annual post, or perhaps I just love doing the "listening" research to find fabulous recommendations. It seems like audiobooks are more popular than ever, but i…
The last year and a bit has been different--to say the least. But at least one can always count on a good read to make everything better. So, here is a personally curated, eclectic list of ten of ou…
Hopefully, Summer 2021 will be awesome. Here are a half a dozen fantastic reads for young adults that we recommend for the summer reading list. All these books have a content level of 5 or less in a…
Summer 2020 was not quite what we all hoped for, but the summer of 2021 is showing promise--especially for the road trip. Assembling this year's list, there seems to be an unconscious bias for escapis…
Compass Book Ratings brings you our annual, hand-picked book gifting recommendations broken out by demographic. In the past, we have split the middle grade recommendations by boy and girl, but this y…
Not a disappointment in the bunch! Overall, a big thumbs up for the 2020 Newbery Books. In some ways, it seems like the #weneeddiversebooks call from a few years ago is finally coming of age and bei…
