Book Reviews
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...
Puppet by David Almond; illus. by Lizzy Stewart Intermediate Candlewick 240 pp. 9/24 9781536239171 $18.99 e-book ed. 9781536239966 $18.99 In this fable/fantasy, Almond (Brand New Boy, rev. 5/22) revisits his signature theme of what it means to be human. Silvester, an elderly puppet-maker and performer, retires, giving his puppets to...
Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White High School Peachtree Teen 416 pp. 9/24 9781682636121 $19.99 e-book ed. 9781682637395 $19.99 Miles Abernathy lives in a struggling West Virginia town in 2017. Power is monopolized by the Davieses, the family of the sheriff and the Abernathys’ mortal enemies in a blood feud...
Libertad by Bessie Flores Zaldívar High School Dial 432 pp. 8/24 9780593696125 $19.99 e-book ed. 9780593696132 $10.99 High school senior Libertad lives in Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, in the lead-up to the country’s fraught 2017 presidential election. Libertad’s attempts to understand her blossoming feelings for her best friend, Camila,...
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Review of Bog Myrtle
Bog Myrtle by Sid Sharp; illus. by the authorPrimary, Intermediate Annick 144 pp.10/24 9781773218922 $19.99e-book ed. 9781773218946 $14.99An unconventional graphic novel for the budding young activist with a sense of humor. Sunny Beatrice lives with her selfish, scowling sister, Magnolia. On a well-intentioned errand, Beatrice takes a few treasures from...
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Review of Thief of the Heights
Thief of the Heights by Son M.; illus. by Robin YaoMiddle School, High School HarperAlley/HarperCollins 240 pp.10/24 9780063067332 $26.99Paper ed. 9780063067325 $18.99e-book ed. 9780063067349 $10.99In the distant dystopian-future setting of this graphic novel towers the monumental stacked city of Muqadas, where each level dictates the quality of life of its...
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Review of Golemcrafters
Golemcrafters by Emi Watanabe CohenMiddle School Levine/Levine Querido 264 pp.11/24 9781646142699 $18.99After Shiloh receives a box of clay as a bar mitzvah present, he and his younger sister, Faye, meet their estranged grandfather, who sent it, for the first time. The siblings learn that, on their father’s side, they are...
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Review of Jasmine Is Haunted
Jasmine Is Haunted by Mark OshiroMiddle School Starscape/Tor 256 pp.10/24 9781250337290 $18.99Paper ed. 9781250337313 $8.99e-book ed. 9781250337306 $11.99Ever since Papi died four years ago, a ghost haunts Jasmine Garza, but she’s not sure if it’s Papi’s or someone else’s. The ghost follows Jasmine as she moves from one apartment to...
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Review of Lola
Lola by Karla Arenas Valenti; illus. by Islenia MilIntermediate Knopf 256 pp.9/24 9780593177006 $17.99Library ed. 9780593177013 $20.99e-book ed. 9780593177020 $10.99Lola, ten, lives in Mexico City in a house built around the Tree. The Tree is full of life, and spirit-like beings called chaneques protect it. One day, Lola notices gray...
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