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Review of Pick the Lock

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...

Review of Puppet

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...

Review of Compound Fracture

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...

Review of Libertad

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,...

Review of Death at Morning House

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...

Review of The Forbidden Book

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...

Review of The Bletchley Riddle

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...

Review of Pearl

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...

Review of Too Small Tola Makes It Count

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...
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