Ms. Kochel's Book Blog

  Ezra Cloud is a Native kid living in the city. He hates it there but his dad is a professor of Ojibwe language with a job in Minneapolis. ...

  Imagine if your actions today could change absolutely everything about the society you live in. Henry, Frances, and Lukas are three modern...

Kaylani is spending a few weeks on Martha's Vineyard with family friends when a local teenager goes missing. When it is determined that ...

  Yash is a JV football star looking forward to a summer of football practices before his freshman year of high school begins. When he gets ...

Kids are clamoring for this series from the author of The Inheritance Games series. The Naturals was first published in 2014 but has had a...

  Dropping Beats is the rare book for teens that had me laughing out loud multiple times. Growls, a highly confident 13-year-old rapper fro...

  I wasn't expecting to love this book even more than Parachute Kids , but the continuing story of the Lin siblings is even more compell...

  In 1995 when author Amar Shah was a ninth grade sports journalist, he had the opportunity to meet and report on some of the greatest playe...

  The Dysfunctional Family's Guide to Murder by Kate Emery is thoroughly enjoyable murder mystery with a quirky, funny 14-year-old Austr...

 Yulieta Lopez should have gotten the lead in the school play. But the role goes to a white girl whose looks fit the character in the tradit...

  I am a big fan of Alone by Megan Freeman, the story of a 12-year-old girl who lives on her own for 3 years after being left behind in a m...

  Virginia is a popular girl with an enviable friend group, but she hides her love of the library and her crush on social-outcast Greyson fr...

  Esme is a 15-year-old dancer who has worked her whole life to make the elite dance team. When she and her best friend get the coveted spot...

  Maddie's Dad is a secret service agent, and when a plot to kill the First Lady of the United States goes wrong, he quits the secret se...

  Middle school kids are very interested in murder mysteries, so this graphic novel caught my attention. It features a 14-year-old boy who i...