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Review of Dead Girls Don’t Dream
Dead Girls Don’t Dream by Nino CipriHigh School Holt 304 pp.11/24 9781250791405 $19.99e-book ed. 9781250791412 $11.99Sisters Riley and Sam help their uncle run his museum of dark folklore and unexplained disappearances next to spooky Voynich Woods. One day, Sam flees into the woods to escape a rude tourist; Riley goes...
The Lost Ones [Moonwind Mysteries]by Johan Rundberg; trans. from Swedish by Eva ApelqvistMiddle School Amazon Crossing Kids 222 pp.1/25 9781662525940 $17.99Paper ed. 9781662525957 $9.99Rundberg’s pair of 1880s detectives—twelve-year-old orphan Mika from Stockholm’s Public Children’s Home and police detective Valdemar Hoff—investigate the disappearance of a wealthy family’s teenage daughter, Beatrice. “Children...
Gabby Torres Gets a Billion Followers by Angela Dominguez; illus. by the authorPrimary, Intermediate Roaring Brook 160 pp.1/25 9781250901378 $19.99Paper ed. 9781250901361 $12.99e-book ed. 9781250412171 $9.99Exuberant nine-year-old Gabby Torres volunteers to start a social media account for her ocean-conservation club, the Sea Musketeers, to prove her maturity to its older...
A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall by Jasmine WargaIntermediate, Middle School Harper/HarperCollins 224 pp.9/24 9780062956705 $19.99e-book ed. 9780062956729 $9.99Sixth grade is not going well for Rami Ahmed: his friends no longer want anything to do with him, leaving him feeling lonely and invisible. His single mother, a Lebanese immigrant...
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Review of Fresh Start
Fresh Start by Gale Galligan; illus. by the author; color by K Czap Middle School Graphix/Scholastic 288 pp. 1/25 9781338045864 $24.99 Paper ed. 9781338045840 $14.99 e-book ed. 9781338045871 $14.99 In this engaging graphic novel, Ollie Herisson (whose father is white and American and whose mother is Thai) has always made...
Oasis by Guojing; illus. by the authorIntermediate, Middle School Godwin/Holt 160 pp.2/25 9781250818379 $21.99Paper ed. 9781250818386 $14.99e-book ed. 9781250415790 $9.99As this graphic novel opens, JieJie and her younger brother, Didi, press their way through a windswept landscape toward an isolated telephone booth in the desert. It’s their way of reaching...
True Life in Uncanny Valley by Deb CalettiHigh School Labyrinth Road/Random 416 pp.3/25 9780593708613 $19.99e-book ed. 9780593708637 $10.99Sixteen-year-old Eleanor is obsessed with learning all she can about her birth father, tech mogul Hugo Harrison, who ended his relationship with her mother long before Eleanor can remember. When the opportunity presents...
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Review of The Tontine Caper
The Tontine Caper by Dianne K. Salerni; illus. by Matt SchuIntermediate Holiday 208 pp.4/25 9780823458103 $18.99e-book ed. 9780823462179 $11.99Salerni (The Carrefour Curse, rev. 3/23) creates a feisty puzzle mystery with a hearty dollop of humor in this intriguing novel. The Precipice Inn welcomes three elderly guests and their families, who...
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Review of Danilo Was Here
Danilo Was Here by Tamika BurgessIntermediate, Middle School Harper/HarperCollins 304 pp.1/25 9780063159662 $19.99e-book ed. 9780063159686 $8.99In this fast-paced historical novel, Danilo is a Black Panamanian living in a neighborhood destroyed by the United States’ invasion of Panama in 1989. Since the first night of the attack, life has become more...
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