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Review of Uprooted: A Memoir About What Happens When Your Family Moves Back

Uprooted: A Memoir About What Happens When Your Family Moves Back by Ruth Chan; illus. by the author Middle School    Roaring Brook    288 pp. 9/24    9781250855336    $22.99 Paper ed.  9781250855343    $14.99 In a graphic memoir set in 1993, thirteen-year-old Chinese Canadian Ruth is apprehensive about her family’s upcoming move from...

Review of Quagmire Tiarello Couldn’t Be Better

Quagmire Tiarello Couldn’t Be Better by Mylisa Larsen Middle School, High School    Clarion/HarperCollins    240 pp. 9/24    9780063324664    $18.99 e-book ed.  9780063324688    $10.99 Quagmire Tiarello, so often misunderstood by his peers and the adults in his life, has a strong sense of loyalty and fairness but little tolerance for rules or...

Books for Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Perhaps now more than ever, Martin Luther King Jr. Day provides an opportunity to reflect not only on the life of the great civil rights leader, but also on how far we've come — and how very far we still have to go. Below is an updated list of recommended...

Review of The Boy and the Elephant

The Boy and the Elephant by Freya Blackwood; illus. by the author Primary    Random House Studio/Random    40 pp. 8/24    9780593707661    $19.99 Library ed.  9780593707678    $22.99 e-book ed.  9780593707685    $10.99 In this wordless picture book, we follow a young boy who seems ignored at home and lonely at school as he...

Review of Narwhal: Unicorn of the Arctic

Narwhal: Unicorn of the Arctic by Candace Fleming; illus. by Deena So’Oteh Primary    Schwartz/Random    48 pp. 10/24    9780593377789    $18.99 Library ed.  9780593377796    $21.99 e-book ed.  9780593377802    $11.99 Readers are immediately immersed in the life of a narwhal as the unseen narrator invites them into the narrative: “You are a narwhal—...

Black excellence

February is Black History Month! These seven picture-book biographies, recommended for primary and/or intermediate readers, highlight accomplished Black figures in a variety of fields. For more, see the Black History Month tag on hbook.com, and the African Americans tag in the Guide/Reviews Database. The Purple One: A Story of Prince by...

New year, new stories

Lunar New Year begins January 29 and is featured in a selection of the recommended titles below, all eight of which star real-life, fictional, or fantastical characters from diverse Asian heritages. See also the Asian Americans tag on hbook.com, the Asian Americans tag in the Guide/Reviews Database, and for older...

If you LOVE love stories...

With Valentine’s Day approaching, here are eight books featuring love, recommended for high-school readers — whether you’re looking for realistic or fantastical, happy or not-so-happy love stories, or even tales about self-love. See also our Five Questions interview with Jason Reynolds about Twenty-Four Seconds from Now…: A Love Story and...

Review of Pick the Lock

Pick the Lock by A.S. King High School    Dutton    400 pp. 9/24    9780593353974    $19.99 e-book ed.  9780593353998    $10.99 Jane, sixteen, lives with her father, Vernon; her younger brother, Henry; house staff; and a rat in a Victorian-style mansion that has been in her mother’s family for generations. Mom is a...
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