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Review of Celestial Monsters
Celestial Monsters by Aiden ThomasHigh School Feiwel 416 pp.9/24 9781250822086 $19.99e-book ed. 9781250822093 $11.99Thomas returns to Reino del Sol, the fantasy world introduced in The Sunbearer Trials (rev. 1/23). Teo’s refusal to sacrifice a fellow demigod at the end of that novel has caused the sun to vanish. Now a...
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Review of Camp Sylvania: Moon Madness
Camp Sylvania: Moon Madness by Julie Murphy and Crystal Maldonado Intermediate, Middle School Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 256 pp.5/24 9780063347267 $18.99e-book ed. 9780063347335 $10.99Camp Sylvania, no longer a “fat camp” and (hopefully) vampire-free (Camp Sylvania, rev. 7/23), is now under the direction of Luna Lupowski, lover of all things New Age,...
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Review of Winnie Nash Is Not Your Sunshine
Winnie Nash Is Not Your Sunshine by Nicole MellebyMiddle School Algonquin 256 pp.4/24 9781643753133 $16.99e-book ed. 9781523527458 $9.99Winnie Nash has been out as gay since age four when she kissed another girl at preschool. It’s never been an issue. At twelve, she’s much more worried about her mom, who is...
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Review of King Bro!
King Bro! by Jenny Jägerfeld; trans. from Swedish by B. J. WoodsteinIntermediate Arctis 150 pp.2/24 9781646900404 $16.00Eleven-year-old Marcus lives in Stockholm, but his mom’s job as a voice actor means he’s spending the summer in Mälmo, a city in southern Sweden. At first Marcus is nervous around his tough new...
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Review of We Built This City
We Built This City by Cat PatrickIntermediate, Middle School Paulsen/Penguin 272 pp.4/24 9780593462164 $17.99e-book ed. 9780593462171 $10.99It’s 1985, and twelve-year-old Stevie has spent years performing with Synchronicity—a group whose shows are part lip synch, part dance, and some ASL. This summer, they’re on a (chaperoned) cross-country tour. Offstage, Stevie is...
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Review of Forsooth
Forsooth by Jimmy Matejek-MorrisMiddle School Carolrhoda 360 pp.11/23 9781728457598 $19.99Calvin Conroy dreams of becoming a Broadway star, but when he falls off the stage during the middle school musical, it confirms what he’s always known: he’s meant to play supporting cast to his best friend, Kennedy, the true star in...
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Review of Camp Sylvania
Camp Sylvania by Julie MurphyIntermediate, Middle School Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 288 pp.6/23 9780063114029 $18.99e-book ed. 9780063114043 $11.99Maggie knows the summer after fifth grade will be amazing because she’s finally going to the performing arts camp of her dreams…until her parents send her to weight loss camp instead. While enduring inedible...
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Review of Doodles from the Boogie Down
Doodles from the Boogie Down by Stephanie Rodriguez; illus. by the author; color by Andrea BellMiddle School Kokila/Penguin 208 pp.4/23 9780451480651 $20.99Paper ed. 9780451480668 $13.99e-book ed. 9780593534052 $8.99In this engaging graphic novel, it’s time for Steph to choose a high school, and her protective Dominican mom wants her to pick...
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Review of The Sunbearer Trials
The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden ThomasHigh School Feiwel 416 pp.9/22 9781250822130 $18.99e-book ed. 9781250822147 $10.99Every ten years in the fantastical but contemporary-feeling Reino del Sol, ten demigod children are chosen to compete in the Sunbearer Trials, a sacred ritual deemed necessary in order to avert the apocalypse. Although winning the...
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