Book Reviews
Loudmouth: Emma Goldman vs. America (A Love Story) by Deborah Heiligman High School Farrar 336 pp. 9/25 9781250823076 $21.99 e-book ed. 9781250823083 $11.99 Heiligman’s newest work of nonfiction touches on a long list of hot-button contemporary issues: due process, free speech, gender equity, economic inequality, pacifism, prison reform, reproductive freedom,...
If Looks Could Kill by Julie Berry High School Simon 448 pp. 9/25 9781534470811 $21.99 e-book ed. 9781534470835 $10.99 This expansive historical novel with Medusa-inspired fantasy elements features Jack the Ripper, Salvation Army missionaries, and new-made Gorgons in New York’s Bowery, 1888. With two principal viewpoints, Berry alternates between the...
The House That Floated by Guojing; illus. by the author Primary, Intermediate Random House Studio/Random 40 pp. 9/25 9780593709054 $18.99 Library ed. 9780593709061 $21.99 Guojing (The Flamingo, rev. 11/22; Oasis, rev. 3/25) presents a vivid wordless picture book about a family who lives in a small seaside cabin atop a...
The Blue Jays That Grew a Forest by Lynn Street; illus. by Anne Hunter Primary Quinlin/Peachtree 48 pp. 8/25 9781682636046 $18.99 Most everyone knows that “mighty oaks from little acorns grow,” as the old saw goes, but how many people know that blue jays are integral to their propagation? Street’s...
Sisters in the Wind by Angeline Boulley High School Holt 384 pp. 9/25 9781250328533 $19.99 e-book ed. 9781250328540 $11.99 Lucy Smith knows that someone is following her, and she decides it’s time to leave town. At first she suspects the handsome Potawatomi man who insists on talking to her at...
Together, United [All Because You Matter] by Tami Charles; illus. by Bryan Collier Primary Orchard/Scholastic 40 pp. 9/25 9781338752052 $18.99 e-book ed. 9781546148562 $18.99 In this third installment of the affirming series (All Because You Matter, rev. 11/20; We Are Here, rev. 3/23), Charles’s evocative verse underscores a message of...
A Snow Day for Amos McGee by Philip C. Stead; illus. by Erin E. SteadPreschool, Primary Roaring Brook 48 pp.9/25 9781250324733 $19.99In his third outing, city-dwelling zookeeper—and lover of snow—Amos McGee (A Sick Day for Amos McGee, rev. 5/10; Amos McGee Misses the Bus, rev. 11/21) eagerly anticipates a forecasted...
How Six Found Christmas by Trina Schart Hyman; illus. by the authorPrimary, Intermediate Holiday 32 pp.10/25 9780823461929 $15.99In this reissue of a classic fable (rev. 12/69), a girl who has never heard of Christmas heads into a snowy forest to search for it. There she meets five animals who want...
The Little Ghost Quilt’s Winter Surprise by Riel Nason; illus. by Byron EggenschwilerPrimary Tundra 48 pp.8/25 9781774885376 $18.99e-book ed. 9781774885383 $10.99The main character from The Little Ghost Who Was a Quilt loves “flying outside in the wintertime.” Unfortunately, it is too cold for his ghost-sheet friends to join him. When...
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