Baton Rouge Parents Magazine–November 2026

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TWEENS AND TEENS

Across the Desert by Dusti Bowling

While using a public library computer to find help for her mother who has an addiction, 12-year-old Jolene witnesses a friend's livestreamed crash-landing in the Arizona desert and embarks on a journey to rescue her.

You Go First by Erin Entrada Kelly

Over the course of a week, Charlotte and Ben, online friends connected only by a Scrabble game, intersect in unexpected ways as they struggle to navigate the tur- moil of middle school.

The Agathas by Kathleen Glasgow and Elizabeth Lawson

After falling from grace last summer, Alice Ogilvie needs to stay out of trouble. But now she and her friend Iris have a murder to solve. Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier For several hundred years, there has been a secret society with 12 time-travelers in all, and Gweneth finds out that she, instead of her well-prepared cousin, is the last one. She and Gideon (her fellow time traveler) have to "close the circle" so something spectacular will happen. Since no one will tell her what that is, and every time she goes to the past, her life is in danger, she and Gideon spend their time in the past trying to find out what exactly will happen when the circle closes, while her best friend Leslie spends her time in learning everything she can about the secret society and what might happen to Gweneth if the circle does close.

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