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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...
The Nine Moons of Han Yu and Luli by Karina Yan Glaser; illus. by the author Intermediate, Middle School Allida/HarperCollins 432 pp. 9/25 9780063284432 $19.99 Make space on your shelf for this delectable, suspenseful adventure spanning more than a thousand years. Eleven-year-old Luli Lee lives in 1930s New York City,...
Nunu and the Sea by Isabella Kung; illus. by the author Primary Knopf 48 pp. 10/25 9780593812723 $18.99 Enraged by homework she doesn’t understand, Nunu runs into her room, slams the door, screams, and tears up the yellow origami house on her desk. In a story line reminiscent of Sendak’s...
Woody’s Words: Woodrow Wilson Rawls and Where the Red Fern Grows by Lisa Rogers; illus. by Susan Reagan Primary Calkins/Astra 32 pp. 9/25 9781662680298 $18.99 In early 1900s Oklahoma, young Woody Rawls’s (1913–1984) education came from the woods, fields, and riverbanks he roamed with his loyal hound dog....
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