Book Reviews
The Unexpected Lives of Ordinary Girls by J. Anderson Coats Middle School Atheneum 272 pp. 9/25 9781665968614 $17.99 In 1910 small-town Colorado, Stanislava’s plan for getting out of her Slovene immigrant community—going by the “American name” of Sylvia, concealing her heritage to avoid discrimination, and one day going to college—comes...
Across the Ice: How We Saved the Ojibwe Horse by Darcy Whitecrow and Heather M. O’Connor; illus. by Natasha Donovan Primary Candlewick 32 pp. 9/25 9781536229455 $18.99 Whitecrow (Ojibwe/Dakota; Seine River First Nation Band), with coauthor O’Connor, tells of the rescue of the last four remaining Lac La Croix Indigenous...
A World Without Summer: A Volcano Erupts, a Creature Awakens, and the Sun Goes Out by Nicholas Day; illus. by Yas Imamura Intermediate, Middle School Random House Studio/Random 304 pp. 9/25 9780593643877 $19.99 On April 10, 1815, on the small Indonesian island of Sumbawa, the volcano Tambora erupted with such...
Otherwise Known as Judy the Great: A Poetic Ode to Judy Blume by Selina Alko; illus. by the authorPrimary Ottaviano/Little, Brown 48 pp.2/26 9780316570633 $18.99A collection of poems introduces author Judy Blume (b. 1938) to readers who may not yet have encountered much of her work. The poems focus mainly...
The Dream Builder’s Blueprint: Dr. King’s Message to Young People by Alice Faye Duncan; illus. by E. B. LewisPrimary Calkins/Astra 32 pp.1/26 9781662680311 $19.99As an opening note explains, this book’s text is drawn from one of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s last public speeches, which he delivered in 1967 to...
Melodies of the Weary Blues: Classic Poems Illustrated for Young People by Langston Hughes; compiled by Shamar Knight-Justice; illus. by various artists Primary, Intermediate Harper/HarperCollins 48 pp.1/26 9780063327054 $19.99A twenty-three-artist ensemble interprets poems from Hughes’s poetry collection The Weary Blues in an illustrated volume that emphasizes the poems’ musical motifs....
The Big Bad Wolf Murder by P. G. BellIntermediate, Middle School Feiwel 224 pp.1/26 9781250864864 $17.99In a world where talking wolves live alongside humans, twelve-year-old Ruby is a rising star player of the sport Tooth & Claw, in which teams of human girls attempt to escape from a wolf opponent...
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Review of The Secret Astronomers
The Secret Astronomers by Jessica Walker; illus. by the authorMiddle School, High School Viking 304 pp.11/25 9780593692677 $19.99This inventive epistolary novel is presented as a series of notes taped or stuck into an old astronomy textbook in a Green Bank, West Virginia, high school library. At first the notes are...
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Review of Wrong Friend
Wrong Friend by Charise Mericle Harper; illus. by Rory LuceyIntermediate, Middle School First Second 256 pp.1/26 9781250851963 $22.99Charise and Casey, best friends and neighbors, are two years apart. The age difference has never felt significant, but then Casey starts high school and shuts Charise out—suddenly and completely. There’s no explanation...
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