Past Gems of the Moment

Wondering what you've missed?  Here are all the "gems" featured on What's In It's home page.  Enjoy!

(Note:  Gems of the Month are not necessarily novels that are free of concerning content.  They are only some of reviewers' favorite novels, and the list leaves out many other favorite and worthwhile novels.  Be sure to read the reviews before you try them.  That said, a few novels are classics and are therefore not reviewed on What's In It.)

The Giver
​The Button War
​Meet the Sky
​Book Scavenger
​Alex and Eliza:  A Love Story
The Glass Sentence
The Neverending Story
The Anne of Green Gables series
​The Lunar Chronicles
The Betsy-Tacy series
​You Bring the Distant Near
​The Librarian of Auschwitz
​Love, Life, and the List
Invictus
Dear Martin
The Lost Property Office
The Duke of Bannerman Prep
Echo
​Seventeenth Summer (classic)
Full Cicada Moon 
The Selection series
The Gilded Cage
Every Falling Star
Cheaper By the Dozen (classic)
Up to this Pointe
Audacity
Slathbog's Gold
Esperanza Rising
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (classic)
Like Water on Stone
Catch You Later, Traitor
So B. It
Better Off Friends
Smile
Julie of the Wolves (classic)
Eleanor's Story
Downriver
Girls Like Us
Chinese Cinderella
The Fault in Our Stars
The Grimm Legacy
Goodbye, Rebel Blue
The Year We Were Famous
The Good Braider
The Books of Ember series
Timebound
Bluefish
A Long Walk to Water
The Book Thief
The Family Romanov:  Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
Warriors in the Crossfire
The Summer I Turned Pretty
Between Shades of Grey
Every Soul a Star
Flipped
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Hope Was Here
The Outsiders (classic w/ review)
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing