Reviews Of The Week
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...
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,...
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...
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....
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...
The Sleeper Train by Mick Jackson; illus. by Baljinder Kaur Primary Candlewick 32 pp. 7/25 9781536238983 $18.99 e-book ed. 9781536249378 $18.99 A child and parents board a train. At night, they pull down bunks to sleep, but the child, wide awake, reflects on “all the different places I have slept”:...
It’s Corn Picking Time! by Jill Esbaum; illus. by Melissa Crowton Primary Porter/Holiday 40 pp. 7/25 9780823455614 $18.99 “This is the farmer, her cap, and her gloves. This is the farm, land that she loves.” Before the sun rises, a farmer gets the combine from the shed, gathers tools for...
Graciela in the Abyss by Meg Medina; illus. by Anna Balbusso and Elena Balbusso Intermediate, Middle School Candlewick 256 pp. 7/25 9781536219456 $18.99 e-book ed. 9781536244960 $18.99 When Graciela fell to her death into the sea as a girl, she became, after a one-hundred-year sleep, a sea spirit. Now she’s...
The Moon Moved In by Sue Soltis; illus. by Sonia Sánchez Primary Chronicle 48 pp. 7/25 9781452180717 $17.99 A girl named Stella looks out her window to the house next door with a for-sale sign on the front lawn. After the sign tips over, curiously, the moon moves into the...
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