Book Reviews
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...
Song of a Blackbird by Maria van Lieshout; illus. by the authorMiddle School, High School First Second 256 pp.1/25 9781250869814 $25.99Paper ed. 9781250869821 $17.99e-book ed. 9781250412119 $11.99This deeply personal and poetic graphic novel illustrates the heroic actions of everyday Dutch people as they resisted the Nazi regime, as well as...
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Review of Very Bad at Math
Very Bad at Math by Hope Larson; illus. by the authorMiddle School HarperAlley/HarperCollins 240 pp.1/25 9780063311299 $24.99Paper ed. 9780063311282 $15.99e-book ed. 9780063311305 $10.99Verity “Very” Nelson is very good at many things: she has just won her third term as student council president and is called “the gold standard of middle...
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Review of Under the Same Stars
Under the Same Stars by Libba BrayHigh School Farrar 480 pp.2/25 9780374388942 $24.99e-book ed. 9780374388959 $12.99In this ambitious work, Bray alternates three seemingly disparate stories, briefly braiding them into one near the novel’s end. In 1940s Germany, Sophie and Hanna are devotees of the Bridegroom’s Oak, a hollow tree famed...
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Review of The Big Splash
The Big Splash [Julia on the Go!]by Angela Ahn; illus. by Julie KimPrimary, Intermediate Tundra 176 pp.2/25 9781774882078 $12.99e-book ed. 9781774882085 $7.99Picking up right where Swimming into Trouble (rev. 3/24) left off, the story finds Julia Nam, having recovered from her ear infection, back in the water, preparing for a...
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Review of After Life
After Life by Gayle FormanHigh School Quill Tree/HarperCollins 272 pp.1/25 9780063346147 $19.99e-book ed. 9780063346161 $11.99Seven years have passed since seventeen-year-old Amber died in a hit-and-run bicycle accident, so it’s a shock when she walks into her house one afternoon and learns about what happened. She finds that everything has changed...
Everything Is Poison by Joy McCulloughHigh School Dutton 304 pp.1/25 9780593855874 $19.99e-book ed. 9780593855898 $10.99In 1650s Rome, Carmela’s mother, Giulia Tofana, runs an apothecary. At sixteen, Carmela is finally allowed to begin training to become an apothecary herself. She learns what goes into healing remedies—familiar herbs such as lavender, rosemary,...
(S)Kin by Ibi ZoboiHigh School Versify/HarperCollins 400 pp.2/25 9780062888877 $19.99e-book ed. 9780062888891 $10.99In this verse novel with a basis in Caribbean folklore, fifteen-year-old Marisol and her mother, Lourdes, have recently emigrated from the Caribbean to Brooklyn. The two are soucouyant, shapeshifting “monsters” who shed their skin during the new moon...
The Trouble with Heroes by Kate MessnerMiddle School Bloomsbury 288 pp.4/25 9781547616398 $17.99e-book ed. 9781547616404 $12.59When seventh grader Finn Connelly is caught on a surveillance camera kicking over a headstone in a local Lake Placid cemetery, little does he know it was the grave of Edna Grace Thomas, “Queen of...
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