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Sato the Rabbit: Morning Light by Yuki Ainoya; illus. by the author; trans. from Japanese by Michael Blaskowsky Preschool, Primary Enchanted Lion 40 pp. 5/25 9781592704392 $17.95 Is Sato a boy in a rabbit costume or a rabbit with a human face and bearing? Is he a kid or a...
Be the Light: How She Became Angela Davis by Daria Peoples; illus. by the author Primary Greenwillow 56 pp. 6/25 9780063206786 $19.99 This picture-book biography of the educator and “passionate activist for equality and justice for all” emphasizes how the events of Davis’s (b. 1944) early life growing up in...
Link + Hud: Sharks & Minnows by Jarrett Pumphrey and Jerome Pumphrey; illus. by the authors Intermediate Norton 192 pp. 7/25 9781324016113 $16.99 The high-spirited brothers are up to more high jinks in this entertaining sequel to Link + Hud: Heroes by a Hair (rev. 5/23). In summer, the community...
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....
The History of We by Nikkolas Smith; illus. by the author Primary, Intermediate Kokila/Penguin 40 pp. 5/25 9780593619681 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780593619698 $11.99 About a quarter of a million years ago, “we”—modern humans—first appeared in Africa. Combining vibrant, painterly illustrations and short, lyrical, explanatory paragraphs, Smith outlines major contributions of...
Sea Change by Susan Fletcher High School Amulet/Abrams 352 pp. 6/25 9781419773921 $19.99 e-book ed. 9798887072982 $17.99 Turtle, fifteen, is a Mer; she has both lungs and gills from a not-quite-legal “gen-mod” experiment. Gen-modding to cure disease is par for the course in this near-future world, but “boutique” and “transhuman”...
Cranky, Crabby Crow (Saves the World) by Corey R. Tabor; illus. by the author Primary Greenwillow 40 pp. 5/25 9780063373587 $19.99 Crow is waiting at his spot on the telephone wire when along comes Squirrel, who tries to interest Crow in ripping open garbage bags with her. Crow dismisses Squirrel...
We Carry the Sun by Tae Keller; illus. by Rachel Wada Primary, Intermediate Norton 48 pp. 6/25 9781324031123 $18.99 Thousands of years ago, humans gathered under the sun’s rays for immediate heat. Then they began constructing homes that faced south to take advantage of that warmth. But could they carry...
This Moth Saw Brightness by A. A. Vacharat High School Dutton 448 pp. 5/25 9780593698600 $20.99 e-book ed. 9780593698624 $10.99 D (short for ’Wayne; the D is “invisible”), who lives in a somewhat off-kilter version of Baltimore, keeps to himself and doesn’t care about much. Half his life ago, his...
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