Book Reviews
One Day This Tree Will Fall by Leslie Barnard Booth; illus. by Stephanie Fizer ColemanPreschool, Primary McElderry 40 pp.3/24 9781534496965 $18.99e-book ed. 9781534496972 $10.99“LOOK AT IT. Wounded, worn, twisted, torn. / One day this tree will fall / and this story will end. / Won’t it?” So begins this Pacific...
Rising from the Ashes: Los Angeles, 1992. Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a City on Fire by Paula Yoo High School Norton 368 pp. 5/24 9781324030904 $19.99 Yoo (From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry, rev. 5/21) provides a comprehensive, kaleidoscopic account of what happened before,...
A Crown of Stories: The Life and Language of Beloved Writer Toni Morrison by Carole Boston Weatherford; illus. by Khalif Tahir ThompsonPrimary, Intermediate Quill Tree/HarperCollins 48 pp.4/24 9780062911032 $19.99In an expressive second-person text addressed to her subject, Weatherford celebrates the life and legacy of the esteemed novelist, professor, and Nobel...
Thomas Jefferson’s Battle for Science: Bias, Truth, and a Mighty Moose! by Beth Anderson; illus. by Jeremy HolmesPrimary, Intermediate Calkins/Astra 48 pp.5/24 9781635926200 $18.99e-book ed. 9781635928624 $11.99As a product of the Age of Reason, Thomas Jefferson was long fascinated by science in general and the natural world in particular. Consequently,...
The Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II by Candace FlemingMiddle School, High School Focus/Scholastic 384 pp.3/24 9781338749571 $19.99e-book ed. 9781338749588 $19.99Bletchley Park, a World War II cryptology center, operated in the English countryside where an extensive and complicated code-breaking operation allowed...
Life After Whale: The Amazing Ecosystem of a Whale Fall by Lynn Brunelle; illus. by Jason ChinPrimary, Intermediate Porter/Holiday 48 pp.6/24 9780823452286 $18.99e-book ed. 9780823459254 $11.99As a ninety-year-old blue whale dies, one story ends and another begins. Her body provides food for other creatures before it gradually descends to the...
Mid-Air by Alicia D. Williams; illus. by Danica NovgorodoffMiddle School Dlouhy/Atheneum 320 pp.4/24 9781481465830 $17.99e-book ed. 9781481465854 $10.99“Be like water,” Isaiah says. “Always,” Darius replies. These are the final words the boys say to each other before Darius takes off on his bicycle to break the Guinness world record for...
Tree. Table. Book. by Lois LowryIntermediate Clarion/HarperCollins 208 pp.4/24 9780063299504 $18.99e-book ed. 9780063299528 $9.99At the start of the story, eleven-year-old Sophia Henry Winslow presents three words to remember. “Listen carefully. This will be important…I’ll explain later.” Sophia is a keen observer, and readers benefit from her straightforward descriptions of her...
Everyone Gets a Turn by Marianne Dubuc; illus. by the author; trans. from French by Celyn Harding-JonesPreschool, Primary Princeton Architectural 64 pp.3/24 9781797227290 $18.99When four animals discover an egg while playing in the forest one day, they decide to take turns caring for it. At Mouse’s house, the egg begins...
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