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Review of When the Mapou Sings
When the Mapou Sings by Nadine PinedeMiddle School, High School Candlewick 432 pp.12/24 9781536235661 $19.99e-book ed. 9781536240184 $19.99In this historical verse novel, teenage Lucille comes of age against the uneasy backdrop of 1930s Haiti. The American colonizers have removed their troops, and political discussions among Haiti’s new leaders about the...
Review of Night Light
Night Light [I Like to Read: Comics]by Michael Emberley; illus. by the authorPrimary Holiday 40 pp.4/25 9780823458165 $14.99Emberley’s familiar pink-and-green-pajama-wearing creature (see Let’s Go!, rev. 1/23, and others) returns for another imaginative early-reader-comic mini-adventure, this time with a parent in tow. It’s bedtime, and after selecting a story (one that...
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Review of Halfway to Somewhere
Halfway to Somewhere by Jose Pimienta; illus. by the authorMiddle School RH Graphic/Random 256 pp.2/25 9780593569450 $21.99Library ed. 9780593569436 $24.99Paper ed. 9780593569429 $13.99e-book ed. 9780593569443 $8.99Pimienta’s (Suncatcher; Twin Cities, rev. 9/22) latest graphic novel explores divisions and connections across families, borders, languages, and cultures. Middle schooler Ave has reluctantly moved...
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Review of The Secret of Honeycake
The Secret of Honeycake by Kimberly Newton FuscoIntermediate Knopf 368 pp.1/25 9780593121771 $17.99Library ed. 9780593121788 $20.99e-book ed. 9780593121795 $10.99In this novel set during the Great Depression, protagonist Hurricane, like the eye of the storm that raged during her birth, has a quiet center. She is shy, hesitant, and often unable...
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Review of No Purchase Necessary
No Purchase Necessary by Maria MarianayagamMiddle School Harper/HarperCollins 256 pp.1/25 9780063360921 $18.99e-book ed. 9780063360945 $9.99Eighth grader Ajay and his sister feel stifled by their immigrant Sri Lankan parents’ strict rules. These include a sole focus on academics, no socializing, and minimal extracurricular activities. When Ajay moves to a new school,...
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Review of Fresh Start
Fresh Start by Gale Galligan; illus. by the author; color by K CzapMiddle School Graphix/Scholastic 288 pp.1/25 9781338045864 $24.99Paper ed. 9781338045840 $14.99e-book ed. 9781338045871 $14.99In this engaging graphic novel, Ollie Herisson (whose father is German and mother is Thai) has always made friends easily at the international schools she attends,...
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Review of Everything Interesting Keeps Happening to Ethan Fairmont
Everything Interesting Keeps Happening to Ethan Fairmont [Ethan Fairmont]by Nick BrooksIntermediate, Middle School Union Square 240 pp.11/24 9781454947134 $16.99Paper ed. 9781454947141 $8.99e-book ed. 9781454947158 $9.99Aliens have invaded and plan to leach all of the energy from planet Earth. Even worse, they have kidnapped Ethan Fairmont’s guinea pig, Nugget. In this...
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Review of All the Love Under the Vast Sky
All the Love Under the Vast Sky edited by Kip WilsonHigh School Paulsen/Penguin 304 pp.1/25 9780593625279 $19.99e-book ed. 9780593625286 $10.99In an appealing and innovative collection, Wilson (One Last Shot, rev. 3/23) brings together a dozen authors (David Bowles, Margarita Engle, Eric Gansworth, Mariama J. Lockington, among others), each creating a...
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Review of The Song of Orphan’s Garden
The Song of Orphan’s Garden by Nicole M. HewittIntermediate, Middle School Feiwel 352 pp.1/25 9781250906045 $17.99e-book ed. 9781250906052 $9.99In this fantasy novel in verse, spare narration yields jewel-bright imagery of a frozen land where a magic metal—Fermata—is necessary for Humans to buy entrance into the Giants’ jealously guarded, sheltered gardens....
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Review of Radiant
Radiant by Vaunda Micheaux NelsonIntermediate Dutton 320 pp.1/25 9780593855782 $18.99e-book ed. 9780593855799 $10.99In this historical novel in verse, fifth grader Cooper Dale is growing up near Pittsburgh in 1963 and grappling with issues concerning her identity as a Black child attending a predominantly white school. While her family encourages her...
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