The Reading Corner Blog

When a young girl moves to a new town with her father, she feels very lonely. That is until she meets a wonderful dog named Winn-Dixie,...

Two girls, both displaced by the explosion at the Chernobyl power plant in 1986, form an unlikely friendship that will last them a...

For Nisha, the summer of 1947 will change everything. World War II has ended, and the British are now letting go of their rule over...

It is 2013 and Syria is falling apart. A young girl named Nadia lives in Aleppo, a large Syrian city, and she is right in the centre of...

An anthology of LGBTQ+ romantic stories, all taking place during the holidays. Each of the five stories follows one young adult through...

When Esperanza's father is killed, she goes from a wealthy land-owner's daughter to a Mexican peasant in California. It is through many...

Sixteen year old Gemma Doyle is tired of her sheltered life in India, and wants to go to school in London. She is furious with her mother...

Sadako Sasaki was only two years old when Hiroshima was bombed. For years, her grandmother's death was the only way the bombing had...

In a world where magic has been outlawed and lost for hundreds of years, some secrets still lie hidden. The magical land of Ferenor is...

Tasmin, a teen with a curse that makes her incapable of love, lives a gloomy life as the village witch, banished from the witchlands....

Amal lives in a small Pakistani village, and school is the highlight of her days. She wants to be a teacher when she is older, and her...

Ren is a confident, outgoing, and talented king. He rules the stage, hangs out with his drag family, and has loads of fans. By day,...

Lenora is having the most boring summer ever. Her parents have gone off travelling the world without her, and the nanny they hired to...

Greg Heffley is just going into middle school, and things aren't going very well for him. All of the other kids in his class are...

Zoe Washington has big plans for the summer. She is going to spend the summer practicing her baking and then audition for The Food...

Stella is a good dog. She has been trained by her handler Connie to sniff out explosives in airports. Stella has saved lives, and has a...

Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student studying video games in Vermont. What draws him to games is the narrative - all the ways they...

Grace's Aunt Lily is a wonderful writer, but right now she seems to be having some trouble. She can't figure out what to write next!...

Rachel knows that her family is having issues, and she knows that the last thing they need is to be trapped on a sailboat together. Her...

Annemarie Johansen is living in Denmark in the middle of the second world war. Her best friend, Ellen, is Jewish, and soon it becomes...

Ware, an eleven year-old boy, is staying with his grandmother at her retirement home for the summer. He thought he would hate the place,...