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Posted on 05 June 2015.

Screen Shot 2015-03-23 at 10.53.14 AMHave you checked our Pinterest page lately? We’ve been adding hundreds of book recommendations to make sure you always have something to read – and they now include recommendations from our ebook library as well.

If you’re a middle schooler who loves realistic and historical fiction, you’ll want to check out our board For Fans of Wendy Mass. It has some great choices of books starring strong, quirky, and smart boys and girls in realistic situations that you may recognize from your own life or that of your friends’.

If fiction is not your thing, we have a board dedicated to Arts, Crafts, Style and Cooking and another full of Autobiographies and Memoirs. You’ll find inspiring stories of amazing artists, get ideas for crafty projects indoors and out, or learn about the lives of totally normal but totally remarkable people – famous, infamous, or next door.

Comics fans will want to click on Can’t Get Enough Graphic Novels for fiction and nonfiction books told through words and pictures. Books in the perpetual favorite post-apocalyptic and dystopian genres can be found on SciFi, Futuristic, and Dystopia.

Another new board, See the World Differently, highlights books about the different ways people experience the world. If you loved books like The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time or Marcelo in the Real World or Out of My Mind, you’ll want to look here for more books to read. You may see yourself in one of these characters, or maybe you’ll consider a perspective you never thought of before.

Is there a theme or genre you’d like recommendations for? Let us know!

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