Reviews Of The Week
Uprooted: A Memoir About What Happens When Your Family Moves Back by Ruth Chan; illus. by the author Middle School Roaring Brook 288 pp. 9/24 9781250855336 $22.99 Paper ed. 9781250855343 $14.99 In a graphic memoir set in 1993, thirteen-year-old Chinese Canadian Ruth is apprehensive about her family’s upcoming move from...
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...
The Boy and the Elephant by Freya Blackwood; illus. by the author Primary Random House Studio/Random 40 pp. 8/24 9780593707661 $19.99 Library ed. 9780593707678 $22.99 e-book ed. 9780593707685 $10.99 In this wordless picture book, we follow a young boy who seems ignored at home and lonely at school as he...
Narwhal: Unicorn of the Arctic by Candace Fleming; illus. by Deena So’Oteh Primary Schwartz/Random 48 pp. 10/24 9780593377789 $18.99 Library ed. 9780593377796 $21.99 e-book ed. 9780593377802 $11.99 Readers are immediately immersed in the life of a narwhal as the unseen narrator invites them into the narrative: “You are a narwhal—...
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...
Still Life by Alex London; illus. by Paul O. Zelinsky Preschool, Primary Greenwillow 40 pp. 9/24 9780063229556 $19.99 This inventive picture book skillfully merges two art styles to tell a story within a story, visually pushing boundaries. “This is a still life. It is a painting of objects sitting still....
Up, Up, Ever Up!: Junko Tabei: A Life in the Mountains by Anita Yasuda; illus. by Yuko Shimizu Primary Clarion/HarperCollins 48 pp. 9/24 9780063242418 $19.99 In this inspiring picture-book biography, readers meet renowned Japanese mountain climber, educator, and environmentalist Junko Tabei (1939–2016), the first woman to successfully summit Mount Everest....
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...
Pigs Dig a Road by Carrie Finison; illus. by Brian Biggs Preschool, Primary Putnam 48 pp. 9/24 9781984816542 $19.99 e-book ed. 9781984816559 $10.99 Hardhat-wearing pigs hurriedly build a road to reach the county fair. While Rosie stays up all night and “plans,” “outlines,” and “calculates,” her peers—Curly, Pinky, and Stinky—sleep....
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