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Winner Brownstone by Samuel Teer; illus. by Mar Julia; color by Ashanti Fortson Middle School, High School Versify/HarperCollins 320 pp. 6/24 9780358394754 $26.99 Paper ed. 9780358394747 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780358393764 $12.99 In this empathetic coming-of-age graphic novel, nearly-fifteen-year-old Almudena reluctantly spends the summer of 1995 with Xavier, her Guatemalan father...
Winner Shut Up, This Is Serious by Carolina Ixta High School Quill Tree/HarperCollins 368 pp. 1/24 9780063287860 $19.99 e-book ed. 9780063287884 $10.99 It’s senior year, and while Belén’s classmates are focused on college applications, she’s flunking school and struggling to cope with a shattered home life. Since her pa walked...
Winner Life After Whale: The Amazing Ecosystem of a Whale Fall by Lynn Brunelle; illus. by Jason Chin Primary, Intermediate Porter/Holiday 48 pp. 6/24 9780823452286 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780823459254 $11.99 As a ninety-year-old blue whale dies, one story ends and another begins. Her body provides food for other creatures before...
Above and left: 1927 posters created for the library by illustrator Pierre Belvès when he was sixteen. Images courtesy of Fonds patrimonial L'Heure Joyeuse, Médiathèque Françoise Sagan. L’Heure Joyeuse was the first library in France devoted especially to children. It opened in the Latin Quarter of Paris in 1924, after...
When at home alone I sit, I never seem to tire of it. I only have to take a look Along the shelves and choose a book, And every two times out of three, I choose the “Little Library.” The books are little, green and blue, And there are orange...
One summer day six years ago a quaint little red-haired boy of five walked into The Bookshop for Boys and Girls. “Now,” said his mother, “you say whom you have come to see.” “I have come to see Alice-Heidi, the doll who lives in The Bookshop,” said the little boy....