Book Reviews
A Song for August: The Inspiring Life of Playwright August Wilson by Sally Denmead; illus. by Alleanna HarrisPrimary, Intermediate Levine/Levine Querido 40 pp.6/24 9781646144396 $18.99August Wilson (1945–2005), the renowned African American playwright, was born with “a song inside him.” He liked words and the way they had their own kind...
The Mine Wars: The Bloody Fight for Workers’ Rights in the West Virginia Coal Fields by Steve WatkinsMiddle School Bloomsbury 272 pp.5/24 9781547612185 $19.99e-book ed. 9781547612192 $13.99West Virginia, the Mountain State, is also historically known for both coal mining and Appalachian poverty. Watkins explores the nexus between them in this...
Ernő Rubik and His Magic Cube by Kerry Aradhya; illus. by Kara KramerPrimary Peachtree 32 pp.5/24 9781682636640 $18.99e-book ed. 9781682636787 $11.99Growing up in Budapest, young Ernő Rubik (b. 1944) was fascinated by shapes and puzzles and loved “imagin[ing] all the possibilities” offered by manipulating “tangrams, pentominoes, and pentacubes.” In this...
A Tour of the Human Body: Amazing Numbers—Fantastic Facts [Number Tours for Curious Kids] by Jennifer Berne; illus. by Dawn DeVries Sokol Primary, Intermediate Kane/Astra 40 pp. 5/24 9781662670152 $18.99 e-book ed. 9781662670169 $11.99 Berne’s counts and measures of the cells and organs of the human body illustrate just how...
Three Summers: A Memoir of Sisterhood, Summer Crushes, and Growing Up on the Eve of the Bosnian Genocide by Amra Sabic-El-Rayess with Laura L. Sullivan Intermediate, Middle School Farrar 352 pp. 4/24 9780374390815 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780374390822 $11.99 After eleven-year-old Amra’s brother’s death from complications of Marfan syndrome, her mother’s...
Spying on Spies: How Elizebeth Smith Friedman Broke the Nazis’ Secret Codes by Marissa Moss; illus. by the authorMiddle School, High School Abrams 224 pp.3/24 9781419767319 $19.99e-book ed. 9781647009786 $16.19Elizebeth Smith Friedman (1892–1980) and her husband, William Friedman, “are now recognized together as the two most influential code-breakers in American...
Life After Whale: The Amazing Ecosystem of a Whale Fall by Lynn Brunelle; illus. by Jason ChinPrimary, Intermediate Porter/Holiday 48 pp.6/24 9780823452286 $18.99e-book ed. 9780823459254 $11.99As a ninety-year-old blue whale dies, one story ends and another begins. Her body provides food for other creatures before it gradually descends to the...
Rising from the Ashes: Los Angeles, 1992. Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a City on Fire by Paula Yoo High School Norton 368 pp. 5/24 9781324030904 $19.99 Yoo (From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry, rev. 5/21) provides a comprehensive, kaleidoscopic account of what happened before,...
Thomas Jefferson’s Battle for Science: Bias, Truth, and a Mighty Moose! by Beth Anderson; illus. by Jeremy HolmesPrimary, Intermediate Calkins/Astra 48 pp.5/24 9781635926200 $18.99e-book ed. 9781635928624 $11.99As a product of the Age of Reason, Thomas Jefferson was long fascinated by science in general and the natural world in particular. Consequently,...
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