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Review of Sunderworld, Vol. I: The Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry
Sunderworld, Vol. I: The Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry by Ransom RiggsHigh School Dutton 336 pp.8/24 9780593530931 $21.99e-book ed. 9780593530955 $10.99Leopold Berry lives in Los Angeles in a world like our own, but since his mother’s death when he was twelve, he has experienced dissociative episodes in which he sees...
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Review of Impossible Creatures
Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell; illus. by Ashley MackenzieMiddle School Knopf 368 pp.9/24 9780593809860 $19.99Library ed. 9780593809877 $22.99e-book ed. 9780593809884 $10.99When Christopher finds a wounded baby griffin in a Scottish lake, his grandfather reveals that he is (and Christopher will be, when he comes of age) a guardian of the...
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Review of The Mailbox Tree
The Mailbox Tree by Rebecca Lim and Kate GordonIntermediate Walker Books 240 pp.8/24 9781760659417 $18.99Furious at her father’s plans to move them to the Northland away from her home in Tasmania (sea-level rise is making the island uninhabitable), Nyx scrawls an angry missive and shoves it into a knothole in...
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Review of Noah Frye Gets Crushed
Noah Frye Gets Crushed by Maggie Horne Middle School Harper/HarperCollins 272 pp.5/24 9780063285194 $18.99e-book ed. 9780063285217 $8.99When Noah returns from summer camp to learn that her two best friends have each had their first kiss with a boy, she worries about being left behind in this new phase of development....
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Review of Sheine Lende: A Prequel to Elatsoe
Sheine Lende: A Prequel to Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger; illus. by Rovina CaiMiddle School, High School Levine/Levine Querido 400 pp.4/24 9781646143795 $19.99Cryptids and Fae abound in the slightly off-kilter version of 1970s Texas that serves as the setting for this prequel to Elatsoe (rev. 9/20). Seventeen-year-old Shane and her...
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Review of The Deadly Daylight
The Deadly Daylight by Ash HarrierIntermediate, Middle School Holiday 272 pp.3/24 9780823455621 $18.99e-book ed. 9780823457618 $11.99Twelve-year-old Alice enjoys helping her father prepare bodies for viewings at the Tranquility Funeral Home, and she intends to take over the business when she’s grown, even if the kids at school call her “Alice...
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Review of A Game of Noctis
A Game of Noctis by Deva FaganIntermediate Atheneum 320 pp.4/24 9781665930192 $17.99e-book ed. 9781665930215 $10.99Ever since the plague three centuries ago, during which the Prince of Dantessa challenged Lady Death to a game of noctis for the lives of her people, inhabitants of the tiny magical island compete for wealth...
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Review of Infinity Alchemist
Infinity Alchemist by Kacen CallenderHigh School Tor Teen 400 pp.2/24 9781250890252 $19.99e-book ed. 9781250890269 $11.99Ash Woods is an unlicensed alchemist, a groundskeeper at a college that will employ him but not admit him to study and train to practice alchemy openly and legally. When Ramsay Thorne, a graduate apprentice, catches...
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Review of Super Swifts: Small Birds with Amazing Powers
Super Swifts: Small Birds with Amazing Powers by Justin Anderson; illus. by Clover RobinPreschool, Primary Candlewick 32 pp.5/24 9781536231489 $18.99In this accessible science picture book, a common swift flies from Africa to Europe in order to nest and reproduce in the summer. The two-tiered narrative (larger print tells a streamlined...
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