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Review of That Swingin’ Sound!: The Musical Friendship of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong

That Swingin’ Sound!: The Musical Friendship of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong by Rekha S. Rajan; illus. by Ken DaleyPrimary    Beach Lane/Simon    48 pp.10/25    9781665957038    $19.99When Ella Fitzgerald was growing up in New York City, the rhythmic sounds of jazz inspired her to dance everywhere: “at home, on the streets,...
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Review of Salmon Run: An Epic Journey to the Ocean and Back

Salmon Run: An Epic Journey to the Ocean and Back by Annie Chen; illus. by the authorPrimary    Red Comet    40 pp.11/25    9781636551654    $19.99“On a crisp autumn day, a Pacific salmon is born.” From an embryo inside an egg to the just-hatched alevin stage to a fry, the salmon’s early life...

Review of This Is Orange: A Field Trip Through Color

This Is Orange: A Field Trip Through Color by Rachel Poliquin; illus. by Julie MorstadPrimary, Intermediate    Candlewick    48 pp.10/25    9781536230529    $18.99“We must begin with the orange.” Poliquin’s “field trip through color” kicks off with the “deliciously round and sweet” citrus fruit associated with the shade of the same name and...
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Review of Rock Star: How Ursula Marvin Mapped Moon Rocks and Meteorites

Rock Star: How Ursula Marvin Mapped Moon Rocks and Meteorites by Sandra Neil Wallace; illus. by Nancy CarpenterPrimary, Intermediate    Wiseman/Simon    48 pp.10/25    9781534493339    $19.99e-book ed.  9781534493346    $10.99Much of what scientists know about the solar system originated in the work of geologist Ursula Marvin (1921–2018), “rock star of the universe” and...
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Review of Welcome to Whalebone Mansion: Creatures That Lurk at a Whale Fall

Welcome to Whalebone Mansion: Creatures That Lurk at a Whale Fall by Laken Slate; illus. by Bindy JamesPreschool, Primary    Charlesbridge    32 pp.10/25    9781623545789    $17.99e-book ed.  9781632894496    $9.99Two small, inquisitive fish explore a whale fall (a sunken whale carcass that forms its own ecosystem) as if it were a haunted house...
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Review of What Louis Brandeis Knows: A Crusader for Social Justice Becomes a Supreme Court Justice

What Louis Brandeis Knows: A Crusader for Social Justice Becomes a Supreme Court Justice by Richard Michelson; illus. by Stacy Innerst Primary, Intermediate    Calkins/Astra    48 pp. 10/25    9781662680632    $18.99 This picture-book biography follows Louis Brandeis (1856–1941) from his secular Jewish childhood in Kentucky with immigrant parents from Prague...
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Review of Woody’s Words: Woodrow Wilson Rawls and Where the Red Fern Grows

Woody’s Words: Woodrow Wilson Rawls and Where the Red Fern Grows by Lisa Rogers; illus. by Susan Reagan Primary    Calkins/Astra    32 pp. 9/25    9781662680298    $18.99 In early 1900s Oklahoma, young Woody Rawls’s (1913–1984) education came from the woods, fields, and riverbanks he roamed with his loyal hound dog....
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Review of Measuring Up: How Oliver Smoot Became a Standard Unit of Measurement

Measuring Up: How Oliver Smoot Became a Standard Unit of Measurement by Jenny Lacika; illus. by Anna BronPrimary, Intermediate    MIT Press/Candlewick    32 pp.9/25    9781536230123    $18.99This unusual nonfiction picture book combines math, hijinks, and etymology—a subject amalgamation readers don’t encounter every day. In the mid-twentieth century, a group of MIT students...

Review of A World Without Summer: A Volcano Erupts, a Creature Awakens, and the Sun Goes Out

A World Without Summer: A Volcano Erupts, a Creature Awakens, and the Sun Goes Out by Nicholas Day; illus. by Yas ImamuraIntermediate, Middle School    Random House Studio/Random    304 pp.9/25    9780593643877    $19.99On April 10, 1815, on the small Indonesian island of Sumbawa, the volcano Tambora erupted with such explosive force that...
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