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Review of The Interpreter
The Interpreter by Olivia Abtahi; illus. by Monica ArnaldoPrimary Kokila/Penguin 40 pp.1/25 9780593620441 $18.99e-book ed. 9780593620458 $10.99Cecilia, a Latine girl, juggles two jobs: kid and interpreter. Text bubbles in yellow for Spanish and blue for English differentiate the languages spoken by Cecilia’s “clients” (i.e., her parents) and by those at...
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Review of Gabby Torres Gets a Billion Followers
Gabby Torres Gets a Billion Followers by Angela Dominguez; illus. by the authorPrimary, Intermediate Roaring Brook 160 pp.1/25 9781250901378 $19.99Paper ed. 9781250901361 $12.99e-book ed. 9781250412171 $9.99Exuberant nine-year-old Gabby Torres volunteers to start a social media account for her ocean-conservation club, the Sea Musketeers, to prove her maturity to its older...
Horn Book Reminiscences: Memory, Storytime, and Yaya
Telling my grandmother that I was going to be a Horn Book intern was comparable to what it would have been like telling other relatives that I was going to be working for the New England Patriots. Yaya (known to all but her grandchildren as Natalie Coleman) has her own...
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Review of The Empty Place
The Empty Place by Olivia A. ColeIntermediate, Middle School Little, Brown 320 pp.11/24 9780316449427 $16.99e-book ed. 9780316449533 $9.99Henry Lightfoot has always been the “earthworm” to her father’s “social butterfly,” more interested in making art at home than joining him on far-reaching adventures. But after he wanders out of Quinvandel Forest...
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Review of Happy & Sad & Everything True
Happy & Sad & Everything True by Alex Thayer Middle School Aladdin/Simon 272 pp. 11/24 9781665955249 $17.99 e-book ed. 9781665955263 $10.99 Dee is struggling in sixth grade: she hears other girls gossiping about her appearance, sees her single mom flirting with her gym teacher, and feels like her best friend...
Family Trees
Breaking a tradition is hard but making a new one can be incredibly fun. When I moved from Northern Virginia to Boston to attend college five years ago, I had a whole new daily life to adjust to, one that excluded some of my favorite traditions: attending the National Book...
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Review of Gifts from the Garbage Truck: A True Story About the Things We (Don’t) Throw Away
Gifts from the Garbage Truck: A True Story About the Things We (Don’t) Throw Away by Andrew Larsen; foreword by Nelson Molina; illus. by Oriol VidalPrimary Sourcebooks Explore 40 pp.9/24 9781728283517 $18.99Throughout his childhood in East Harlem, Molina’s mother instilled in him the principle that every object had value: loose...
Review of The Day We Got Lost
The Day We Got Lost by Faith Pray; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Little, Brown 40 pp.8/24 9780316541176 $18.99A chaotic household tries to reset by heading out for a forest hike. It’s hard to enjoy the serenity of nature, though, when no one will help Mom, Grandpa keeps telling old...
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Review of Brownstone
Brownstone by Samuel Teer; illus. by Mar Julia; color by Ashanti FortsonMiddle School, High School Versify/HarperCollins 320 pp.6/24 9780358394754 $26.99Paper ed. 9780358394747 $18.99e-book ed. 9780358393764 $12.99In this empathetic coming-of-age graphic novel, nearly-fifteen-year-old Almudena reluctantly spends the summer of 1995 with Xavier, her Guatemalan father whom she’s never met, so that...
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