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Review of Coach
Coach [Track]by Jason ReynoldsIntermediate, Middle School Dlouhy/Atheneum 256 pp.10/25 9798347102372 $17.99Middle-school athletes Ghost, Lu, Patina, and Sunny each have their own titles in Reynolds’s Track series (most recently Lu, rev. 11/18); now it’s Coach’s turn. Who was he before he was an inspiring leader? How did he grow up to...
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Review of Keeper Chance and the Dubious Doppelgänger
Keeper Chance and the Dubious Doppelgänger [Evil Villains International League]by Alex EvanovichMiddle School, High School Simon 336 pp.10/25 9781665960076 $18.99e-book ed. 9781665960090 $10.99Sixteen-year-old Keeper Chance and his best friend, Toby Boggs, are the youngest recruits to E.V.I.L., the Evil Villains International League. Each member has special talents (e.g., Toby has...
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Review of The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze
The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze by Derrick BarnesMiddle School Viking 272 pp.9/25 9781984836755 $17.99Thirteen-year-old Henson Blayze is about to start eighth grade and, as his friend Menkah tells him, “The whole town, the whole state of Mississippi has been waiting on you.” He’ll be playing football with the high school...
Review of Island Storm
Island Storm by Brian Floca; illus. by Sydney Smith Preschool, Primary Porter/Holiday 48 pp. 7/25 9780823456475 $18.99 Caldecott winner Floca and Hans Christian Andersen Award winner Smith team up to create a magnificent, timeless tale of two young children on an adventure close to home. An intense storm is approaching....
How Sweet the Sound
Here’s a book so beautiful you wish you could have the original art gracing your living room walls. I at least have the book perched atop a bookcase in a well-lit room. And it reads beautifully, too. Kwame Alexander’s lyrical free verse begs to be read aloud, which he did...
Review of At Last She Stood: How Joey Guerrero Spied, Survived, and Fought for Freedom
At Last She Stood: How Joey Guerrero Spied, Survived, and Fought for Freedom by Erin Entrada Kelly Intermediate, Middle School Greenwillow 208 pp. 5/25 9780063218901 $19.99 e-book ed. 9780063218925 $9.99 When Josefina Veluya Guerrero (1917–1996), known as Joey, was a little girl in the town of Lucban in the Philippine...
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Review of Crossing the Finish Line
Crossing the Finish Line by Thushanthi Ponweera; illus. by Maithili JoshiPrimary Union Square 40 pp.6/25 9781454950189 $18.99Ranatunge Karunananda (1936–1974), known as Karu, was the only runner among the six athletes representing Sri Lanka in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. In “the biggest stadium he [had] ever seen,” he lined...
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Review of Displaced
Displaced by Patrick OchiengMiddle School, High School Carolrhoda 224 pp.8/25 9798765648698 $18.99Fourteen-year-old Kimathi lives in a suburb of the Kenyan city of Eldoret, but when his father is murdered during post-election violence, he flees. Like so many others after the 2007–2008 elections, he ends up in a camp for Internally...
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Review of Biggest Fake in the Universe
Biggest Fake in the Universe by Johan Rundberg; trans. from Swedish by Eva ApelqvistMiddle School Amazon Crossing Kids 192 pp.8/25 9781662532030 $18.99Paper ed. 9781662532047 $9.99What do you do when you fall in love with the best skateboarder in Midsommarkransen, but you’re just a nerdy seventh-grade boy who has never kissed...
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