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Review of Island Storm
Island Storm by Brian Floca; illus. by Sydney SmithPreschool, Primary Porter/Holiday 48 pp.7/25 9780823456475 $18.99Caldecott 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. “Now take my...
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Review of Up in Smoke
Up in Smoke by Nick BrooksHigh School Holt 256 pp.5/25 9781250359933 $19.99e-book ed. 9781250359926 $11.99Sixteen-year-old Cooper King has always tried to follow his father’s admonition to avoid political protests for his own safety. But then a schoolmate is shot by the police, and Jason, who is like a big brother...
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Review of J vs. K
J vs. K by Kwame Alexander and Jerry Craft; Intermediate, Middle School Little, Brown 240 pp.5/25 9780316582681 $16.99e-book ed. 9780316582698 $9.99Two fifth graders vie to win their middle school’s annual creative storytelling contest. Both are already experienced storytellers: J illustrates books without words, and K writes stories without illustrations. In...
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Review of Return to Sender
Return to Sender by Vera Brosgol; illus. by the authorIntermediate Roaring Brook 320 pp.5/25 9781250292186 $18.99e-book ed. 9781250292179 $11.99Brosgol (most recently Plain Jane and the Mermaid, rev. 5/24) pivots from graphic novels and picture books to an illustrated middle-grade novel (finished art unseen). After the death of his father, ten-year-old...
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 KellyIntermediate, Middle School Greenwillow 208 pp.5/25 9780063218901 $19.99e-book ed. 9780063218925 $9.99When Josefina Veluya Guerrero (1917–1996), known as Joey, was a little girl in the town of Lucban in the Philippine Islands, Joan of Arc...
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Review of The Unlikely Heroes Club
The Unlikely Heroes Club by Kate FosterIntermediate Candlewick 208 pp.4/25 9781536239041 $17.99e-book ed. 9781536242225 $17.99All eleven-year-old Oli, who is autistic, likes to do is design buildings on his Design-a-House app. He’s called a “wimp” and “boring” at school, but otherwise kids mainly leave him alone. His parents sign him up...
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Review of Is It Real?: The Loch Ness Monster
Is It Real?: The Loch Ness Monster by Candace FlemingIntermediate, Middle School Focus/Scholastic 160 pp.3/25 9781546110286 $26.99Paper ed. 9781339037936 $8.99e-book ed. 9781546110293 $8.99A prehistoric monster was sighted in Loch Ness! People say they have seen it. Newspapers have reported it. But does it really exist? Fleming involves readers in the...
Review of Still Sal
Still Sal by Kevin Henkes; illus. by the author Primary Greenwillow 256 pp. 10/24 9780063389625 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780063389649 $9.99 Sal Miller is six. Her life is changing so much that she tells Papa, “I’m not Sal anymore,” after her two-year-old sister, Poppy, moves into her bedroom. Sal “was a...
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Review of The Trouble with Heroes
The Trouble with Heroes by Kate MessnerMiddle School Bloomsbury 288 pp.4/25 9781547616398 $17.99e-book ed. 9781547616404 $12.59When seventh grader Finn Connelly is caught on a surveillance camera kicking over a headstone in a local Lake Placid cemetery, little does he know it was the grave of Edna Grace Thomas, “Queen of...
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