Book Reviews
Every Story Ever Told by Ami Polonsky Middle School Little, Brown 256 pp. 10/24 9780316570978 $16.99 e-book ed. 9780316571005 $9.99 In this sequel to World Made of Glass (rev. 3/23), set a generation later, seventh grader Stevie (daughter of Iris Cohen, the first book’s protagonist) is attending her New Jersey...
Quagmire Tiarello Couldn’t Be Better by Mylisa Larsen Middle School, High School Clarion/HarperCollins 240 pp. 9/24 9780063324664 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780063324688 $10.99 Quagmire Tiarello, so often misunderstood by his peers and the adults in his life, has a strong sense of loyalty and fairness but little tolerance for rules or...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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