Book Reviews
The Other Side of Tomorrow by Tina Cho; illus. by Deb JJ LeeIntermediate, Middle School HarperAlley/HarperCollins 224 pp.11/24 9780063011083 $24.99Paper ed. 9780063011076 $15.99e-book ed. 9780063011090 $10.99In this intense and moving comic, we follow two North Korean refugees—Yunho, a shy, thoughtful boy; and Myunghee, a music-loving girl—on a harrowing year-long trek...
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Review of Will’s Race for Home
Will’s Race for Home by Jewell Parker RhodesIntermediate Little, Brown 208 pp.1/25 9780316299336 $17.99e-book ed. 9780316299541 $9.99In this coming-of-age Western, twelve-year-old Will Samuels and his father, a stoic, formerly enslaved man, leave their sharecropper home in Texas for the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889. Along the way, they encounter Caesar,...
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...
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 Chickenpox
Chickenpox by Remy Lai; illus. by the authorIntermediate Holt 240 pp.1/25 9781250863300 $22.99Paper ed. 9781250863294 $14.99Lai (recently Ghost Book, rev. 9/23) crafts a unique and humorous graphic novel based on her recollection of events (with some names and details altered, per an author’s note) surrounding her and her siblings’ bout...
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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...
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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 Safe Harbor
Safe Harbor by Padma VenkatramanIntermediate, Middle School Paulsen/Penguin 176 pp.1/25 9780593112502 $17.99e-book ed. 9780593112519 $10.99Geetha and her mother, who lives with depression, move from Chennai, India, to Rhode Island, leaving behind the rest of their family and settling in an apartment near Narragansett Bay. Geetha is lonely at school and...
The Snips: A Bad Buzz Day by Raúl the Third; illus. by the author; color by Elaine Bay; coloring by Eleonora Bruni; lettering by Rob LeighIntermediate, Middle School LB Ink/Little, Brown 128 pp.1/25 9780316528689 $14.99e-book ed. 9780316576345 $9.99In this wacky and entertaining graphic-novel series starter, readers are welcomed to Scissors...
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