Book Reviews
Noodle & Bao by Shaina Lu; illus. by the author Intermediate, Middle School Quill Tree/HarperCollins 224 pp. 10/24 9780063283411 $24.99 Paper ed. 9780063283404 $15.99 e-book ed. 9780063283428 $11.99 Momo has spent her entire life in her beloved Town 99, a fictional setting resembling real-world Chinatowns but where humans and anthropomorphic...
Twenty-Four Seconds from Now…: A Love Story by Jason Reynolds High School Dlouhy/Atheneum 256 pp. 10/24 9781665961271 $19.99 e-book ed. 9781665961295 $10.99 Seventeen-year-old Neon is in his girlfriend Aria’s bathroom, wracked with anxiety because, for the two of them, “tonight is for our first time.” Twenty-four seconds earlier, he was...
On a Wing and a Tear by Cynthia Leitich Smith Middle School Heartdrum/HarperCollins 240 pp. 9/24 9780062870001 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780062870025 $9.99 When Great-Grandfather Bat (an actual bat) calls upon (humans) Ray and Mel to help him travel to a rematch of the legendary Great Ball Game in the Southeast...
When the World Tips Over by Jandy Nelson High School Dial 528 pp. 9/24 9780525429098 $21.99 e-book ed. 9780698195042 $10.99 Nelson (Printz Award winner for I’ll Give You the Sun, rev. 11/14) begins with definitions of a fantasia—one of which is “a literary work composed of a mixture of different...
The Curse of Madame Petrova by Marjolijn Hof; illus. by Annette Fienieg; trans. from Dutch by Bill Nagelkerke Middle School Em Querido/Levine Querido 272 pp. 9/24 9781646144532 $18.99 Silke and her twin brother, Janis, are fated to cause each other’s demise, or so predicted Madame Petrova when she read the...
Lola by Karla Arenas Valenti; illus. by Islenia Mil Intermediate Knopf 256 pp. 9/24 9780593177006 $17.99 Library ed. 9780593177013 $20.99 e-book ed. 9780593177020 $10.99 Lola, 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....
Still Sal by Kevin Henkes; illus. by the author Primary Greenwillow 256 pp. 10/24 9780063389625 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780063389649 $9.99 Sal Miller is six. Her life is changing so much that she tells Papa, “I’m not Sal anymore,” after her two-year-old sister, Poppy, moves into her bedroom. Sal “was a...
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Review of The Scorpion Queen
The Scorpion Queen by Mina FearsHigh School Flatiron 320 pp.1/25 9781250392350 $19.99e-book ed. 9781250852953 $11.99In imperial Mali in 1359, Aminata, a rich merchant’s daughter originally betrothed to a noble she loves, loses everything after a false accusation leads to her disownment and the cancellation of her engagement. Now she must...
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Review of Dear Manny
Dear Manny by Nic StoneHigh School Crown 224 pp.3/25 9780593308011 $19.99Library ed. 9780593308028 $22.99e-book ed. 9780593308035 $10.99This third book in the trilogy (Dear Martin, rev. 11/17; Dear Justyce, rev. 11/20) begins by bringing readers back to the moment Jared (who is white) receives the call that his best friend, Manny...
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