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Review of Hello, Universe
Hello, Universeby Erin Entrada KellyIntermediate, Middle School Greenwillow 314 pp.3/17 978-0-06-241415-1 $16.99 ge-book ed. 978-0-06-241417-5 $9.99Virgil Salinas is shy and bullied at school. Since he doesn’t know his multiplication tables, his nasty classmate Chet Bullens, a.k.a. “the Bull” (your standard-issue middle-school bully), repeatedly calls...
Review of Izzy Kline Has Butterflies: A Novel in Small Moments
Izzy Kline Has Butterflies: A Novel in Small Momentsby Beth AinIntermediate Random 167 pp.3/17 978-0-399-55080-5 $16.99Library ed. 978-0-399-55081-2 $19.99 ge-book ed. 978-0-399-55082-9 $10.99Fourth grader Izzy has her share of common woes — mean girls, school anxiety, auditions for a play, a dad with...
Review of Ronit & Jamil
Ronit & Jamilby Pamela L. LaskinHigh School Tegen/HarperCollins 183 pp.2/17 978-0-06-245854-4 $17.99e-book ed. 978-0-06-245855-1 $9.89This Romeo and Juliet–inspired story unfolds in five acts of verse, swapping the setting of Renaissance-era Italy with present-day Israel. Teenagers Ronit (an Israeli girl) and Jamil (a Palestinian boy) are...
Review of When My Sister Started Kissing
When My Sister Started Kissingby Helen FrostIntermediate, Middle School Ferguson/Farrar 195 pp.3/17 978-0-374-30303-7 $16.99 gClaire and Abigail have few memories of their mother — she died when they were very young — but at their family’s lakeside cabin, the girls are surrounded by the poetry,...
Review of One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance
One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissanceby Nikki Grimes; illus. by various artistsIntermediate, Middle School, High School Bloomsbury 120 pp.1/17 978-1-61963-554-8 $18.99e-book ed. 978-1-61963-555-5 $12.99The vibrancy of the Harlem Renaissance is illuminated in Grimes’s provocative poetry collection. In a tribute to the great poets of the...
Review of Mission to Pluto: The First Visit to an Ice Dwarf and the Kuiper Belt
Mission to Pluto: The First Visit to an Ice Dwarf and the Kuiper Belt [Scientists in the Field]by Mary Kay Carson; photos by Tom UhlmanIntermediate, Middle School Houghton 73 pp.1/17 978-0-544-41671-0 $18.99In 2015, after nine years in transit from Earth, the New Horizons spacecraft successfully flew...
Review of Forever, or a Long, Long Time
Forever, or a Long, Long Timeby Caela CarterIntermediate Harper/HarperCollins 311 pp.3/17 978-0-06-238568-0 $16.99 ge-book ed. 978-0-06-238570-3 $9.99Eleven-year-old (but still in the fourth grade) narrator Flora and her younger brother Julian had been in foster care for as long as they could remember. Now they’ve...
Review of If Your Monster Won’t Go to Bed
If Your Monster Won’t Go to Bedby Denise Vega; illus. by Zachariah OHoraPrimary Knopf 40 pp.3/17 978-0-553-49655-0 $17.99Library ed. 978-0-553-49656-7 $20.99 ge-book ed. 978-0-553-49657-4 $10.99In tongue-in-cheek direct-address text, Vega provides children with an entertaining manual for putting unruly monsters to sleep: “Let’s review...
Review of Anywhere Farm
Anywhere Farmby Phyllis Root; illus. by G. Brian KarasPrimary Candlewick 32 pp.3/17 978-0-7636-7499-1 $16.99 g“For an anywhere farm, / here’s all that you need: / soil / and sunshine, / some water, / a seed.” Root’s upbeat Green Eggs and Ham–esque rhyming text details all the...
Spring 2017 Publishers’ Preview: Five Questions for Jeff Zentner
This interview originally appeared in the March/April 2017 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Spring Publishers’ Preview, an advertising supplement that allows participating publishers a chance to each highlight a book from its current list. They choose the books; we ask the questions.Sponsored byCarver texted his friend Mars while...
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