Reviews Of The Week
Truth Is by Hannah V. Sawyerr High School Amulet/Abrams 480 pp. 9/25 9781419776830 $21.99 e-book ed. 9798887074016 $19.79 This verse novel’s protagonist, high school senior Truth Bangura, does not make the grades her moralizing best friend does, but she still has goals beyond what her overbearing mother and her guidance...
Pippo’s Perfectly Peculiar Days by Lenny Wen; illus. by the author Primary Clarion/HarperCollins 48 pp. 10/25 9780063288959 $19.98 Meet Pippo: a tiny rodent wearing a quilted cardigan and a neckerchief who spends his time clickety-clacking on a typewriter in his cozily appointed hollow tree. His days are orderly, his routines...
Just in Case: Saving Seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault by Megan Clendenan; illus. by Brittany Cicchese Primary Charlesbridge 32 pp. 10/25 9781623544805 $17.99 Deep in the earth, protected by multiple sensors and systems, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault on an icy Arctic island ensures that the “priceless treasure”...
How to Say Goodbye in Cuban by Daniel Miyares; illus. by the author Middle School Schwartz/Random 240 pp. 9/25 9780593568293 $21.99 Paper ed. 9780593568309 $13.99 Library ed. 9780593568316 $24.99 In this fictional graphic novel based on Miyares’s father’s childhood, Carlos is growing up in the Cuban countryside in 1956. He...
Tea Is Love by Adib Khorram; illus. by Hanna Cha Primary Dial 40 pp. 10/25 9780593618530 $18.99 Tea begins as a plant, plucked from misty hillsides. It is transported to a teahouse, purchased, and then steeped and shared. From there, it appears in many forms: poured at a wedding, brewed...
What Louis Brandeis Knows: A Crusader for Social Justice Becomes a Supreme Court Justice by Richard Michelson; illus. by Stacy Innerst Primary, Intermediate Calkins/Astra 48 pp. 10/25 9781662680632 $18.99 This picture-book biography follows Louis Brandeis (1856–1941) from his secular Jewish childhood in Kentucky with immigrant parents from Prague...
The Poisoned King [Impossible Creatures] by Katherine Rundell; illus. by Ashley Mackenzie Middle School Knopf 304 pp. 9/25 9780593809907 $19.99 When Christopher Forrester returns to the Glimouria Archipelago, conditions could not be more dire: the ancient, wise dragons are dying, and the dragon Sarkany, on whose back Christopher flew in...
Broken by X. Fang; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Tundra 48 pp. 10/25 9781774882009 $18.99 A young girl tells a story about a cup, a cat, and some cake. While visiting her grandma, bored Mei Mei decides to scare Mimi the cat but in doing so accidentally breaks Ama’s...
Our Air by G. Brian Karas; illus. by the author Primary Paulsen/Penguin 32 pp. 10/25 9780593625514 $18.99 With the opening sentence, “I am the Air,” Karas (On Earth, rev. 9/05) establishes personified air as the narrator, reassuring readers that even though, scientifically speaking, they cannot see or smell or hear...
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