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Review of Keeper Chance and the Conundrum of Chaos
Keeper Chance and the Conundrum of Chaos [Evil Villains International League]by Alex EvanovichMiddle School, High School Simon 336 pp.10/24 9781665960045 $18.99e-book ed. 9781665960069 $10.99“The man known as Chaos had entered Peachmont High School through a back door,” looking to recruit sixteen-year-old junior Keeper Chance for the Evil Villains International League,...
Golden Gate
A new book by Elizabeth Partridge is always a cause for celebration. I taught her Marching for Freedom for many years at my school, and her books about photographer Dorothea Lange (her godmother) are beautiful, full of archival photographs. When I got wind that Golden Gate: Building the Mighty Bridge...
Review of The Bletchley Riddle
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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Review of Ruin Road
Ruin Road by Lamar GilesMiddle School, High School Scholastic 368 pp.9/24 9781338894134 $19.99Paper ed. 9781546146971 $12.99e-book ed. 9781338894141 $12.99Kincade Webster, a Black star wide receiver for the mostly white Neeson Preparatory Academy in Virginia, has ambitions of attending The Ohio State University and going on to the NFL. He puts...
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Review of Tig
Tig by Heather SmithIntermediate, Middle School Tundra 160 pp.9/24 9780735267497 $17.99e-book ed. 9780735267503 $10.99Eleven-year-old Tig has been abandoned by her mother and has lived for four months on her own, with no money, no food, and no electricity. Now Uncle Scott and his partner, Manny, are at the police station...
Review of Still Sal
Still Sal by Kevin Henkes; illus. by the authorPrimary Greenwillow 256 pp.10/24 9780063389625 $18.99e-book ed. 9780063389649 $9.99Sal 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 person who had a...
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Review of Jupiter Rising
Jupiter Rising by Gary D. SchmidtMiddle School Clarion/HarperCollins 208 pp.8/24 9780358659648 $18.99e-book ed. 9780358659549 $9.99In this companion to Orbiting Jupiter (rev. 11/15), eighth grader Jackson Hurd is mourning the loss of Joseph, his “foster brother, sort of,” and cherishes his role as brother to Joseph’s now-orphaned daughter. Jack adores three-year-old...
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Review of Kareem Between
Kareem Between by Shifa Saltagi SafadiMiddle School Putnam 336 pp.9/24 9780593699263 $18.99e-book ed. 9780593699270 $10.99Seventh grader Kareem dreams of becoming the first Syrian American NFL player. He hopes to make the middle school football team as quarterback—not likely since the coach’s son, Austin, is up for that position, though Austin...
The Ship in the Window
I’m a big fan of Matthew Cordell’s work. I was on the 2018 Caldecott committee that chose Wolf in the Snow, and I selected Evergreen last year for the Robin Smith Picture Book Prize. So, what do I like about Cordell’s latest outing, The Ship in the Window written by...
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