Book Reviews
The Forest of a Thousand Eyes by Frances Hardinge; illus. by Emily Gravett Intermediate, Middle School Amulet/Abrams 128 pp. 8/25 9781419777783 $19.99 e-book ed. 9798887074511 $17.99 Hardinge and Gravett pair up again (Island of Whispers, rev. 7/24) in a short, atmospheric tale told through Hardinge’s skillful fairy-tale prose and Gravett’s...
Sugar Shack by Lucy Knisley; illus. by the author; color by Whitney Cogar Intermediate, Middle School RH Graphic/Random 240 pp. 8/25 9780593125502 $21.99 Library ed. 9781984896919 $24.99 Paper ed. 9781984896902 $13.99 e-book ed. 9781984896926 $8.99 This third installment of the graphic-novel series (starting with Stepping Stones, rev. 5/20) finds Jen,...
School Dance [Brinkley Yearbooks] by Sarah Sax; illus. by the author Intermediate, Middle School Knopf 288 pp. 8/25 9780593306963 $21.99 Library ed. 9780593306970 $24.99 Paper ed. 9780593306956 $13.99 e-book ed. 9780593306987 $8.99 In this third installment of the graphic-novel series (Picture Day, rev. 9/23; Tryouts, rev. 7/24), wallflower Milo Castillo...
Graciela in the Abyss by Meg Medina; illus. by Anna Balbusso and Elena Balbusso Intermediate, Middle School Candlewick 256 pp. 7/25 9781536219456 $18.99 e-book ed. 9781536244960 $18.99 When Graciela fell to her death into the sea as a girl, she became, after a one-hundred-year sleep, a sea spirit. Now she’s...
The Midwatch Institute for Wayward Girls by Judith Rossell; illus. by the author Intermediate, Middle School Dial 320 pp. 5/25 9798217002405 $18.99 Oppressed orphans, a boarding school, a 1920s setting, a determined heroine, and an exuberant mystery plot—we think we’ve seen it all before, but this entertaining romp has some...
Zarina Divided by Reem Faruqi Middle School Harper/HarperCollins 336 pp. 5/25 9780063284999 $19.99 e-book ed. 9780063285064 $9.99 Eleven-year-old Zarina lives a privileged life in Poona, India, until the British withdrawal in 1947, which initiates the partition of India into two separate countries. The family survives the chaos and violence as...
Link + Hud: Sharks & Minnows by Jarrett Pumphrey and Jerome Pumphrey; illus. by the authors Intermediate Norton 192 pp. 7/25 9781324016113 $16.99 The high-spirited brothers are up to more high jinks in this entertaining sequel to Link + Hud: Heroes by a Hair (rev. 5/23). In summer, the community...
Sea Change by Susan Fletcher High School Amulet/Abrams 352 pp. 6/25 9781419773921 $19.99 e-book ed. 9798887072982 $17.99 Turtle, fifteen, is a Mer; she has both lungs and gills from a not-quite-legal “gen-mod” experiment. Gen-modding to cure disease is par for the course in this near-future world, but “boutique” and “transhuman”...
This Moth Saw Brightness by A. A. Vacharat High School Dutton 448 pp. 5/25 9780593698600 $20.99 e-book ed. 9780593698624 $10.99 D (short for ’Wayne; the D is “invisible”), who lives in a somewhat off-kilter version of Baltimore, keeps to himself and doesn’t care about much. Half his life ago, his...
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