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BHS Library: Your Next Book

Your Next Book

Your Next Book

Your Next Book is a video series where Mr. Mulvey suggests and reviews new books to read. You can see the reviews on YouTube (follow @mulveylibrarian), on Instagram (follow @mulveylibrarian), and right here on this page.

Where To Find Books

Your Next Book

  • Huda F Cares? by Huda Fahmy (uploaded Mar 12, 2025)
    • For those who enjoy: road trips, Walt Disney World, strong female protagonists, themes of cultural identity and acceptance
  • Black Girl You Are Atlas by Renée Watson (uploaded Mar 12, 2025)
    • For those who enjoy: poetry in general, celebrations of Black culture, celebrations of women
  • Our Beautiful Darkness by Ondjaki (uploaded Mar 12, 2025)
    • For those who enjoy: poetic writing, graphic novels/picture books, romance
  • An American Plague by Jim Murphy (uploaded Mar 12, 2025)
    • For those who enjoy: actually learning from the past, history
  • Calvin by Martine Leavitt (uploaded Mar 12, 2025)
    • For those who enjoy: Calvin and Hobbes, perilous journeys, potentially unreliable narrators, neighborhood love stories, nuanced looks at schizophrenia
  • When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller (uploaded Feb 13, 2025)
    • For those who enjoy: Korean folktales, storytelling, family (and sister) bonding, coming of age stories, magical realism
  • When You Look Like Us by Pamela N. Harris (uploaded Feb 13, 2025)
    • For those who enjoy: mysteries, true crime stories, urban dramas, relationships (both familial and romantic)
  • The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater (uploaded Feb 13, 2025)
    • For those who enjoy: legal dramas and true crime. LGBTQIA+ stories, the Bay Area
  • The Great Stink by Colleen Paeff (uploaded Dec 20, 2024)
    • For those who enjoy: history, pollution, sisease control, scientific breakthroughs, poop jokes!
  • Polar Bear Café by Aloha Higa (uploaded Dec 20, 2024)
    • For those who enjoy: puns (in Japanese), animals acting like people, quirky slice of life stories, absurd humor
  • Huda F Are You? by Huda Fahmy (uploaded Dec 6, 2024)
    • For those who enjoy: middle school scaries, stories about fitting in, Muslim identity stories, amusing by desperate attempts to fit in
  • Here I Am, I Am Me by Cara Bean (uploaded Dec 6, 2024)
    • For those who enjoy: anything at all, just read this book, it’s important; nonfiction comics; improving their mental health
  • Rez Dogs by Joseph Bruchac (uploaded Nov 14, 2024)
    • For those who enjoy: poetry, storytelling traditions, actually talking about the pandemic
  • Queer Ducks by Eliot Screfer (uploaded Nov 14, 2024)
    • For those who enjoy: animals and the natural world, LGBTQIA+ topics, surprising facts, humorous writing, comics
  • Fallout by Steve Sheinkin (uploaded Nov 14, 2024)
    • For those who enjoy: world history, spy stories, politics
  • My Fine Fellow by Jennieke Cohen (uploaded Oct 22, 2024)
    • For those who enjoy: cooking, adaptations of classics, romance, Jewish identity stories, British accents (if you choose the audiobook)
  • Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley (uploaded Oct 22, 2024)
    • For those who enjoy: Native American identity stories, mysteries, sports (hockey), drug busts, and crime stories
  • The Honeys by Ryan La Sala (uploaded Oct 18, 2024)
    • For those who enjoy: horror stories, mysteries, summer camp, bees?, gender fluid protagonists, supernatural elements
  • Lupe Wong Won't Dance by Donna Barba Higuera (uploaded Oct 18, 2024)
    • For those who enjoy: baseball, humor, family bonding, fighting the system, not dancing
For any questions, email Mr. Mulvey at jmulvey3@schools.nyc.gov