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Review of Samira’s Worst Best Summer
Samira’s Worst Best Summer by Nina HamzaMiddle School Quill Tree/HarperCollins 336 pp.5/24 9780063024946 $19.99e-book ed. 9780063024960 $10.99Thirteen-year-old Samira’s parents and older sister are in India for two weeks for a wedding, leaving her and her younger brother, Imran, at home in Minnesota with their maternal grandmother, Umma. Recovering from an...
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Review of Lunar Boy
Lunar Boy by Jes Wibowo and Cin Wibowo; illus. by the authors Intermediate, Middle School HarperAlley/HarperCollins 240 pp.5/24 9780063057609 $24.99Paper ed. 9780063057593 $15.99e-book ed. 9780063057616 $9.99Set on an Indonesian-inspired New Earth, this graphic-novel space fantasy explores themes of love and forgiveness, growth and identity. A young, white-haired, brown-skinned child is...
Review of The Door Is Open: Stories of Celebration and Community by 11 Desi Voices
The Door Is Open: Stories of Celebration and Community by 11 Desi Voices edited by Hena Khan Intermediate, Middle School Little, Brown 336 pp. 4/24 9780316450638 $17.99 e-book ed. 9780316450836 $9.99 Focused on a community center in the fictional town of Maple Grove, New Jersey, this powerful collection of short...
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Review of Behind My Doors: The Story of the World’s Oldest Library
Behind My Doors: The Story of the World’s Oldest Library by Hena Khan; illus. by Nabila AdaniPrimary Lee & Low 40 pp.5/24 9781643794235 $20.95The Al-Qarawiyyin Library of Fez, which serves as the first-person narrator of this nonfiction picture book, beckons the reader to hear the tale of its founding, glory...
Review of The Blossom and the Firefly
The Blossom and the Firefly by Sherri L. Smith Middle School, High School Putnam 311 pp. g 2/20 978-1-5247-3790-0 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5247-3791-7 $10.99 Almost buried alive in a bombing by Allied forces in 1945 Chiran, Japan, fifteen-year-old Hana feels as though she is already dead, just going through the...
Review of My Grandma and Me
My Grandma and Me by Mina Javaherbin; illus. by Lindsey Yankey Primary Candlewick 32 pp. g 8/19 978-0-7636-9494-4 $16.99 The unnamed narrator recalls her childhood growing up in Iran (where the author also grew up) with her beloved grandmother, who lives with the family. The child accompanies her grandma on...
Review of I Hope You Get This Message
I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Naz Rishi High School HarperTeen 420 pp. g 10/19 978-0-06-274145-5 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-274147-9 $9.99 When the world learns that omnipotent aliens will decide humanity’s fate in eight days, chaos erupts, and three teens strive to make their (potentially) final days count....
Review of Let's Scare Bear
Let’s Scare Bear by Yuko Katakawa; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Holiday 40 pp. 7/19 978-0-8234-3953-9 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-8234-4294-2 $10.99 A quartet of woodland creatures—a mouse, fox, spider, and snake—are enjoying afternoon tea, including their favorite sweet manju cakes (steamed buns filled with red bean paste), when they...
Review of More to the Story
More to the Story by Hena Khan Intermediate, Middle School Salaam/Simon 262 pp. g 9/19 978-1-4814-9209-6 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-4814-9211-9 $10.99 In a novel inspired by Little Women, thirteen-year-old Pakistani American Jameela Mirza, second oldest of four sisters and an aspiring journalist, lives with her family in Atlanta. This Eid...
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