Bookbibuli

Lucy Callahan was struck by lightning. She doesn't remember it, but it changed her life forever. The zap gave her genius-level math skills, and ever since, Lucy has been homeschooled. Lucy's grandma insists: Go to middle school for 1 year. Make 1 friend. Join 1 activity. And read 1 book (that's not a math textbook!). Lucy's not sure what a girl who does calculus homework for fun can possibly learn...

Ebenezer Scrooge is a bitter old man, working day after day in his office, mistreating everyone around him, caring only about making riches and little else. Christmas Eve is no exception, as he dismisses it as utter humbug. But that might change when he is visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future; and shown the error in his ways.

“He sat at his desk – last seat, last row – and looked at the chart on the wall next to him. Of course, there was no gold star next to his name. He had already done three things wrong: First, he had knocked over a girl and made her cry. Second, he was late getting back to class. And third and worst of all, his name was Bradley Chalkers. As long as his name was Bradley Chalker's, he'd never get a g...

The BFG (The Big Friendly Giant) is a 1982 children's book written by British novelist Roald Dahl. This one was less story and more silly wordplay and fantasy. Towards the end it gets into a storyline, but at least the first half is mainly just a conversation between the BFG and Sophie. It is fun. The storyline is simple : the giants eat human beans and BFG and Sophie help in destroying their plan...

Jack Gantos the author of Dead End in Norvelt for which he was awarded the newbery award. He has also given us over 40 impactful children’s books like The Rotten Ralph series, The Joey Pigza series, Jack Henry series, From Norvelt to Nowhere and Hole in My Life.  He has won multiple prestigious literary awards including Newberry Medal (twice),Sibert Honour, and Printz Honour. This series is to cel...

Jack Gantos the author of Dead End in Norvelt for which he was awarded the newbery award. He has also given us over 40 impactful children’s books like The Rotten Ralph series, The Joey Pigza series, Jack Henry series, From Norvelt to Nowhere and Hole in My Life.  He has won multiple prestigious literary awards including Newberry Medal (twice),Sibert Honour, and Printz Honour. This series is to cel...

Jack Gantos the author of Dead End in Norvelt for which he was awarded the newbery award. He has also given us over 40 impactful children’s books like The Rotten Ralph series, The Joey Pigza series, Jack Henry series, From Norvelt to Nowhere and Hole in My Life.  He has won multiple prestigious literary awards including Newberry Medal (twice),Sibert Honour, and Printz Honour. This series is to cel...

Jack Gantos the author of Dead End in Norvelt for which he was awarded the newbery award. He has also given us over 40 impactful children’s books like The Rotten Ralph series, The Joey Pigza series, Jack Henry series, From Norvelt to Nowhere and Hole in My Life.  He has won multiple prestigious literary awards including Newberry Medal (twice),Sibert Honour, and Printz Honour. This series is to cel...

The Grabber is middle-grade dark fantasy based on the legend of the Black Taj that follows the story of 12 yrs old Nuru who was chosen by Mumtaz to fulfill the prophecy of fighting the evil sorcerer buried under The Black Taj with sixty-four severed hands that built the White Taj Mahal. 0

Hoot is a mystery suspense novel, recommended for ages 9–12, by Carl Hiassen. The setting takes place in Florida, where new arrival Roy makes two oddball friends and a bad enemy, and joins an effort to stop construction of a pancake house which would destroy a colony of burrowing owls who live on the site. The book won a Newbery award in 2003.

Scythe, written by Neil Shusterman, is a book which makes you think, which is perhaps the highest praise that a person can levy upon a book. The English is clear, and lucid, and the concepts created by a mind which seems capable of thinking. The book is about a world where no one dies, except for those who are chosen by the Scythedom, whose entire job, is to ‘glean’ people. For such a morbid idea,...

George's Grandma is a grizzly, grumpy, selfish old woman with pale brown teeth and a small puckered up mouth like a dog's bottom. Four times a day she takes a large spoonful of medicine, but it doesn't seem to do her any good. She's always just as poisonous after she's taken it as she was before. When George is left to look after her one morning, it's just the chance he needs.

This is about real witches. Real witches don't ride around on broomsticks. They don't even wear black cloaks and hats. They are vile, cunning, detestable creatures who disguise themselves as nice, ordinary ladies. So how can you tell when you're face to face with one? Well, if you don't know yet you'd better find out quickly-because there's nothing a witch loathes quite as much as children and she...

Matilda, is one of Roald Dahl’s best. Leaving the wonderfully clever and mischievous characters of Matilda aside. The book has all of Dahl’s trademark wit, and wordplay, alongside some of his best and most recognisable characters. Ranging from the Trunchbull, to Miss Honey, the book has some of Dahl’s worst and best characters, alongside as much humour as you would like. While some of its subject...

The blunt pencil, a book of poems from a 17 year old. Srishti Ganguli is a reader, a writer, a podcast host, an astronomer and an aspiring astrophysicist. Published in 2023, it is a short book of poems. Poems touching some of the disturbing malaise of the society, really hard-hitting treatise on the problems of the society which we have become numb to. Get ready to be jolted out of that slumber, y...

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie society is the smoothest of books. As easily read as any other, and with superb language, concepts and characters. It flow superbly, and its ability to astound is never in doubt. The epistolary form of writing compliments its story perfectly, and the vividness of it is glorious. It is a romantic, funny, sad, and sharply written book, which is immensely rer...

The Night Diary, is a blast from the past, a remembrance of the bloody history of India, casued due to religion. It shows the worst side of humanity, with all of its flaws; vicious, vengeful, and bloodthirsty, but to pare it off, it brings in themes of hope, home, and family to ensure that even as it imprints on your mind, it leaves you with something to root for. It tells the tale of the Partitio...

A long walk to water, is a book focused on the central theme of struggle. Struggle to find the most basic necessity itself; Water. Water, is the most basic necessity in the world, and perhaps its biggest conundrum and paradox, ‘Water, water everywhere, not a drop to drink’ is not just a statement. There is just so much of it, a massive amount, and so much of it undrinkable. Water comprises 70% of...

Kwame Alexander wrote a book, and he wrote it in a style, which was unique, clever and intelligent all at once. The book, Crossover, combines a witty story, with a rhyme scheme writing style, and a lot of heart. What is it about you ask, well it might be about basketball, about families, about teenage love, or jealousy, but at the end of the day its all in the eye of the beholder anyway.

This is a book, or rather two books. One telling us about the living conditions in South Africa particularly for non-whites, and the other of the Trevor living in those conditions. The book is a tribute to a very strong, headstrong lady - Patricia, who stood between the Apartheid and her son. Her life is marked by a series of illegal choices, to keep herself free from the menial life decided by th...

Very rarely does a book come along, that makes the world listen. It happened that way in 1960, when ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ was published. Harper Lee’s book was a superb work of both fiction, and reality. Fiction, because the  people she created are not real, but reality because the world she described is. The book is a look at the hypocritical, judgemental, and racist world, but from the far mor...

Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed.

In her enchanting novel, Yonder, Ali Standish weaves a heartwarming tale that explores the transformative power of friendship and the healing nature of new beginnings. With its compelling characters, vivid descriptions, and emotionally resonant storytelling, this book is a testament to the enduring strength of human connections. "Every hero has a story, but not every story has a hero. Even now, af...

United Nations has declared 31 August as the International Day for People of African Descent. To honor, we will podcast our next series ERACE, a series on the barbarity of racism. We will discuss four books which show us the cruelty and the oppression people had to endure. How a man’s color destined his death in a court. How a child’s birth becomes a crime. How not to get killed by a cop on the st...

How does a young boy lives through the terminal illness of his mother? How he handles the bully at school? How everyone walks around him on eggshells? How difficult can it be to accept the truth? A monster calls is the story of a 13 year old boy who has a deeply stricken mother. A story which has four stories told by a monster. A monster who wants nothing but the truth, the absolute truth. A truth...