Book Reviews
A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II by Elizabeth Wein Middle School, High School Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 388 pp. 1/19 978-0-06-245301-3 $19.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-245304-4 $8.99 Wein has established herself as a consummate writer of historical fiction (Code Name Verity, rev. 5/12; Rose...
Children of the First People: Fresh Voices of Alaska’s Native Kids by Tricia Brown; photos by Roy Corral Intermediate, Middle School Alaska Northwest 48 pp. g 4/19 Paper ed. 978-1-5132-6197-3 $13.99 Twenty years after Children of the Midnight Sun (rev. 7/98), Brown and Corral present ten additional portraits of contemporary...
Skulls! by Blair Thornburgh; illus. by Scott Campbell Primary Atheneum 40 pp. 7/19 978-1-5344-1400-6 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5344-1401-3 $10.99 “You probably don’t think much about skulls,” the book begins, as readers meet a round-faced girl with puffball pigtails. A page-turn places the girl, who’s contentedly chomping on an apple, amid...
A Computer Called Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Helped Put America on the Moon by Suzanne Slade; illus. by Veronica Miller Jamison Primary Little, Brown 40 pp. 3/19 978-0-316-43517-8 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-0-316-51131-5 $9.99 Math genius Katherine Johnson (née Coleman) was a star student, twice skipping a grade before her family...
The Lost Forest by Phyllis Root; illus. by Betsy Bowen Primary University of Minnesota 40 pp. 4/19 978-0-8166-9796-0 $17.95 In 1882, a survey team mapping out the wilderness areas of Minnesota made a mistake. As the land was being divided into townships, one of the surveying crew came to Township...
Our Flag Was Still There: The True Story of Mary Pickersgill and the Star-Spangled Banner by Jessie Hartland; illus. by the author Primary Wiseman/Simon 48 pp. 5/19 978-1-5344-0233-1 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5344-0234-8 $10.99 Today the original star-spangled banner is on display at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in...
Wildheart: The Daring Adventures of John Muirby Julie Bertagna; illus. by William GoldsmithIntermediate, Middle School Yosemite Conservancy 128 pp.3/19 978-1-930238-94-7 $17.99This creatively rendered biography-in-comics-format of John Muir (1838–1914) is filled with the naturalist’s adventures, from his childhood in Scotland to his pioneering conservation work and formation of America’s National Parks....
Bulion, Leslie Leaf Litter CrittersGr. 4–6 56 pp. PeachtreeIllustrated by Robert Meganck. Nineteen poems (in various forms) accompanied by bright digital illustrations provide information both whimsical and scientific about inhabitants of the brown food web — the layer of leaves and soil where organic matter breaks down and plants grow....
Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918by Albert Marrin; read by Jim FrangioneMiddle School, High School Listening Library Rev. 3/185 CDs 5.75 hrs. 978-1-525-52609-4 $45.00Marrin’s account of the flu pandemic that killed millions of people during World War I, plus modern-day efforts to identify that strain and prevent...
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