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Review of Together, United

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...

Review of The Sky Was My Blanket: A Young Man’s Journey Across Wartime Europe A Young Man’s Journey Across Wartime Europe

The Sky Was My Blanket: A Young Man’s Journey Across Wartime Europe by Uri Shulevitz; illus. by the author Intermediate, Middle School    Farrar    160 pp. 8/25    9780374392468    $19.99 e-book ed.  9780374392475    $11.99 The late Shulevitz, author of the acclaimed memoir Chance: Escape from the Holocaust (rev. 11/20), recounts the story...

Review of The Forest of a Thousand Eyes

The Forest of a Thousand Eyes by Frances Hardinge; illus. by Emily Gravett Intermediate, Middle School    Amulet/Abrams    128 pp. 8/25    9781419777783    $19.99 e-book ed.  9798887074511    $17.99 Hardinge and Gravett pair up again (Island of Whispers, rev. 7/24) in a short, atmospheric tale told through Hardinge’s skillful fairy-tale prose and Gravett’s...

Review of A Place for Us

A Place for Us by James E. Ransome; illus. by the author Primary, Intermediate    Paulsen/Penguin    32 pp. 8/25    9780593324882    $18.99 An opening note introduces this story of a mother and son experiencing homelessness. The otherwise wordless story opens with the mother walking through the city carrying a green backpack. She...

Review of I Wish I Didn’t Have to Tell You This

I Wish I Didn’t Have to Tell You This by Eugene Yelchin; illus. by the author High School    Candlewick    432 pp. 9/25    9781536215533    $22.99 e-book ed.  9781536227321    $22.99 This graphic memoir, a sequel to The Genius Under the Table (rev. 9/21) but for a teen audience, picks up in 1980...

Review of Sugar Shack

Sugar Shack by Lucy Knisley; illus. by the author; color by Whitney Cogar Intermediate, Middle School    RH Graphic/Random    240 pp. 8/25    9780593125502    $21.99 Library ed.  9781984896919    $24.99 Paper ed.  9781984896902    $13.99 e-book ed.  9781984896926    $8.99 This third installment of the graphic-novel series (starting with Stepping Stones, rev. 5/20) finds Jen,...

Review of Recess

Recess by Lane Smith; illus. by the author; design by Molly Leach Primary    Abrams    40 pp. 7/25    9781419776892    $19.99 e-book ed.  9798887074047    $17.99 At Freedom Elementary School, students tackle reading, writing, and math, but as the narrator wryly notes, sometimes they “need a break from all that fun, right?” Enter...

Review of White Lies: How the South Lost the Civil War, Then Rewrote the History

White Lies: How the South Lost the Civil War, Then Rewrote the History by Ann Bausum High School    Roaring Brook    368 pp. 8/25    9781250816573    $24.99 e-book ed.  9781250816580    $12.99 “For more than a century and a half, a tsunami of Confederate commemoration has washed over the United States of America....

Review of School Dance

School Dance [Brinkley Yearbooks] by Sarah Sax; illus. by the author Intermediate, Middle School    Knopf    288 pp. 8/25    9780593306963    $21.99 Library ed.  9780593306970    $24.99 Paper ed.  9780593306956    $13.99 e-book ed.  9780593306987    $8.99 In this third installment of the graphic-novel series (Picture Day, rev. 9/23; Tryouts, rev. 7/24), wallflower Milo Castillo...
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