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  Mr. Villaronga, ELA Teacher, students, and Gayle Forman 3/22/18 Gayle listens carefully while a student reads her writing aloud t...

Students who are hungry to read more comics and curious to learn more about amazing historical figures from around ...

Sophomore Marcos Rivas hasn’t had a girlfriend yet and he wonders when his turn will come.  Growing up in economic poverty in Tam...

Moore, David Barclay. The Stars Beneath Our Feet . Alfred A. Knopf, 2017. Everyone has noticed that Wallace "Lolly" Rachpa...

In this younger readers’ edition of her popular adult non-fiction title, researcher and writer Shetterly makes the fruits of her seven-y...

Stepping during a pre-theater visit on 11/6/17. A gallery walk during a post-theater visit on 11/13/17. On November 8th we...

Growing up is always hard, but for Billie it was especially difficult. At the age of 10, she already has to protect her mother from her...

It takes a runt pig, Marty, for Lorenzo the protagonist in Paul Griffin’s latest novel, Saving Marty, to reveal his belief in the impor...

The morning after Will’s brother, Shawn, is shot and killed, Will steps onto the elevator with a gun tucked into his pants, knowing wha...

The Great Migration: An American Story is a picture book collecting the sixty panels Lawrence painted over seventy years ago to tell the...

Opening with the pivotal and devastating night of the Gatumba massacre, Uwiringiyimana brings the reader into the perilous moment of ha...

A must read for all Passages Academy staff, A Stone of Hope is the story of former student Jim St. Germain, from his impoverished chil...

Seventeen-year old Justyce McAllister’s ex-girlfriend, Melo, is too drunk to drive her Benz home at 3am and Justyce knows it.  Justyce...

The Girl Meets Boy Inn is infamous for all of the murders that took place in the mansion-turned-hotel. Stories float around town about...

Passing through customs in New York City’s JFK airport, teenage Fabiola and her mother are separated.  Not understanding her mother’s...

Ishmael Beah by Sarah Stacke.  Image from www.themoth.org Best known for his experiences as a child soldier in the memoir A Long Way G...

The down-to-earth star of Precious strikes a conversational tone and shares her life story so far.  Growing up in Harlem in a family d...

The title says it all: who among us wouldn’t be fascinated by the origins of the first free black settlement in colonial America?  Whi...

We are looking forward to another school year of good reads! We will resume posting our reviews and recommendations of the best texts for e...

We're taking a little hiatus for the summer and looking forward to returning with reviews and programming news after Labor Day.  Happy S...