Ms. Kochel's Book Blog

  If you like witty banter or musical theatre or or a sweet, awkward rom com, this is the book for you. Patrick is a 16-year-old British boy...

  Fallon has a long scar on her face and a deep secret that she has kept since she was very young. She's now 13 years old and enjoying h...

  This is a rare find--a book with 14-year-old boy protagonists that is FUNNY. Jensen and his best friends Maleek and Cooper are graduating ...

  Brian has a lot of family problems, including his father abandoning him and his younger brother at the same time his mother attempts suici...

  I love that this book is about an 8th grade girl as it is hard to find books about 14 year olds in today's publishing environment. I a...

  Luna begins this book as a solidly bookish seventh grader who spends most of her time with her best friend Scott. When circumstances lead ...

  Six older teenagers in an RV on a long road trip get stranded in the middle of the night in the middle of nowhere. There's no internet...

Ella volunteers to babysit for her nephew on New Year's Eve. When she arrives at her aunt's house she finds the door open and bodies...

  Anton is a tough kid at his school, part of a group of boys that intimidates both students and teachers. His father being in prison has ea...

  An airship crash lands on an unknown island. A teenage smuggler brings a dragoness aboard the ship, and when it escapes on the island it s...

  Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980 in spectacular fashion. And even though people had plenty of warning that something big was happening, sc...

  This memoir about seeing and being seen is like no other book for middle schoolers. James Robinson has strabismus, a condition often mis-l...

  Danny is a seventh grader who loves video games, and he is understandably thrilled to spend a week with his Uncle Bill, the owner of Pixel...

  Estelle Nadel was seven years old when Nazis invaded Poland and her life was upended. She spent the next years in hiding, facing devastati...

This gripping nonfiction graphic novel tells a little-known story about science, survival, and environmentalism, all from the first-person p...