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Review of The Maid and the Crocodile
The Maid and the Crocodile by Jordan IfuekoMiddle School, High School Amulet/Abrams 304 pp.8/24 9781419764356 $19.99e-book ed. 9781647008185 $17.99After seventeen-year-old Small Sade ages out of her orphanage, her primary goal is to discover a home where she truly belongs. However, her physical appearance, marked by vitiligo and a maimed foot...
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Review of Jax Freeman and the Phantom Shriek
Jax Freeman and the Phantom Shriek [Jax Freeman]by Kwame MbaliaIntermediate Freedom Fire/Disney-Hyperion 480 pp.10/24 9781368064736 $17.99e-book ed. 978136864798 $10.99After his alleged participation in a brawl, twelve-year-old Jackson Freeman is sent to Chicago to live with an uncle and grandmother he barely knows. Awkward and shy, Jax expects to confront the...
Review of Abeni’s Song
Abeni’s Song by P. Djèlí ClarkIntermediate, Middle School Starscape/Tor 336 pp.7/23 9781250825827 $19.99Paper ed. 9781250825841 $8.99e-book ed. 9781250825834 $11.99On Abeni’s twelfth birthday, a witch enters her village to give a grave warning: an evil is coming, and it’s too late to run. The adults prepare for an impossible battle as...
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Review of Conjure Island
Conjure Island by Eden RoyceIntermediate Walden Pond/HarperCollins 320 pp.6/23 9780062899613 $19.99e-book ed. 9780062899620 $10.99Because her father is in the Air Force, eleven-year-old Delphinia Baker moves to a new state every year, making it difficult to form lasting friendships. Del is grateful for the one constant in her life: her grandmother....
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Review of Hamra and the Jungle of Memories
Hamra and the Jungle of Memories by Hanna AlkafIntermediate, Middle School Harper/HarperCollins 400 pp.3/23 9780063207950 $19.99e-book ed. 9780063207974 $10.99Hamra has just turned thirteen, though no one in her family seems to have noticed. Due to COVID-19, her home country of Malaysia is under quarantine, leaving her mother working long hours...
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Review of Harvest House
Harvest House by Cynthia Leitich SmithHigh School Candlewick 320 pp.4/23 9781536218602 $19.99e-book ed. 9781536227284 $19.99Theater kid Hughie Wolfe, one of the few Indigenous students at his high school, is disappointed when the fall play is cancelled. He sets his sights on a new project: a haunted house fundraiser at the...
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Review of The Enchanted Life of Valentina Mejía
The Enchanted Life of Valentina Mejía by Alexandra AlessandriIntermediate, Middle School Atheneum 224 pp.2/23 9781665917056 $17.99e-book ed. 9781665917070 $10.99As a young girl, Valentina loved the Colombian legends her father told about the magical creatures inhabiting their country. Now that she’s twelve (“almost thirteen”), however, she finds the stories childish fantasies,...
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Review of Rebel of Fire and Flight
Rebel of Fire and Flight by Aneesa MarufuMiddle School, High School Chicken House/Scholastic 384 pp.1/23 9781338802313 $19.99e-book ed. 9781338802337 $12.99Khadija is a brown-skinned sixteen-year-old girl living in the (fictional) realm of Ghadaea. Although her Ghadaean identity grants her a position in society’s highest racial caste, her identity as a girl...
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Review of We Are All So Good at Smiling
We Are All So Good at Smiling by Amber McBrideHigh School Feiwel 304 pp.1/23 9781250780386 $18.99e-book ed. 9781250780393 $10.99This ambitious novel in verse uses magical realism and fairy-tale elements to explore clinical depression and highlight the various stages of grief. Whimsy is back at the hospital again, where she has...
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