Book Reviews
Death at Morning House by Maureen Johnson High School HarperTeen 384 pp. 8/24 9780063255951 $19.99 e-book ed. 9780063255975 $10.99 Johnson’s first standalone mystery since the Stevie Bell universe (Truly Devious, rev. 1/18, and others) introduces readers to Marlowe Wexler, whose moniker “makes it sound…like there’s a bartender who knows my...
The Forbidden Book by Sacha Lamb Middle School, High School Levine/Levine Querido 256 pp. 10/24 9781646144563 $19.99 ebook ed. 9781646144822 $13.99 “On a full moon night, after a day of fasting, the young bride Sorel Kalmans leapt from a window and left her life behind.” Seventeen-year-old Sorel is betrothed to...
The Bletchley Riddle by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin Middle School, High School Viking 400 pp. 10/24 9780593527542 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780593527566 $10.99 It’s the summer of 1940 in this collaboration between Sepetys (whose historical fiction for older readers includes, recently, I Must Betray You, rev. 5/22) and Sheinkin (primarily...
Pearl by Sherri L. Smith; illus. by Christine Norrie Intermediate, Middle School Graphix/Scholastic 144 pp. 8/24 9781338029437 $24.99 Paper ed. 9781338029420 $12.99 e-book ed. 9781338029444 $12.99 In this graphic novel, a Japanese American girl visiting family outside Hiroshima is trapped there after Japan bombs Pearl Harbor. Amy’s sōsobo (great-grandmother), whose...
Too Small Tola Makes It Count by Atinuke; illus. by Onyinye Iwu Primary, Intermediate Candlewick 96 pp. 9/24 9781536238150 $16.99 e-book ed. 9781536240030 $16.99 Atinuke returns for a fourth time (Too Small Tola, rev. 3/21, and sequels) to her diminutive, high-spirited, mathematically gifted protagonist’s “run-down block of apartments in the...
Mama’s Chicken and Dumplings by Dionna L. Mann Intermediate Ferguson/Holiday 208 pp. 8/24 9780823455553 $17.99 e-book ed. 9780823459261 $10.99 Mann sets this amiable story in 1930s Vinegar Hill, “a thriving African American business and residential community” outside Charlottesville, Virginia. Allie Lewis wants the best for her mama and thinks she...
How It All Ends by Emma Hunsinger; illus. by the author Middle School, High School Greenwillow 304 pp. 8/24 9780063158153 $25.99 Paper ed. 9780063158146 $15.99 e-book ed. 9780063158160 $9.99 In this quick-paced graphic novel, Tara’s runaway thoughts are great when she plays pretend with her baby brother but not so...
Hearing Things by Ben Sears; illus. by the author Intermediate TOON 40 pp. 9/24 9781662665431 $12.99 This story combines apprehension about moving to a new town, the determination of one sibling to help another, the spine-tingling fear of a haunted house, and the cunning of a resolute cat—all in one...
The Brightwood Code by Monica Hesse High School Little, Brown 336 pp. 5/24 9780316045650 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780316045711 $10.99 In 1918 Washington, DC, eighteen-year-old Edda St. James is working as a switchboard operator for the Bell telephone company while living in her aunt’s boarding house. Though she is grateful for...
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