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Review of The Astrochimps: America’s First Astronauts
The Astrochimps: America’s First Astronauts by Dawn CusickIntermediate, Middle School Chicago Review 216 pp.2/24 9781641608954 $19.99e-book ed. 9781641608978 $12.99Chimpanzees were “America’s first astronauts,” but what did their missions entail, and how did their voyages help NASA send humans into space? Cusick’s well-researched look at the primates’ training and flights provides...
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Review of Bunny and Clyde
Bunny and Clyde by Megan McDonald; illus. by Scott NashPrimary Candlewick 128 pp.3/24 9781536228731 $16.99e-book ed. 9781536237429 $16.99Best friends Bunny and Clyde learn that it can be hard to be bad in this early chapter book. The rabbit and chipmunk duo are tired of being good and decide to put...
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Review of Lost Words: An Armenian Story of Survival and Hope
Lost Words: An Armenian Story of Survival and Hope by Leila Boukarim; illus. by Sona AvedikianPrimary Chronicle 40 pp.3/24 9781797213651 $18.99In a story inspired by her husband’s grandfather, Boukarim provides a powerful examination of the loss inflicted by the Armenian Genocide. After soldiers suddenly arrive at their home, the young...
Review of They Hold the Line: Wildfires, Wildlands, and the Firefighters Who Brave Them
They Hold the Line: Wildfires, Wildlands, and the Firefighters Who Brave Them by Dan Paley; illus. by Molly MendozaPrimary, Intermediate Chronicle 40 pp.9/23 9781797214504 $18.99Daunting, exhausting, sweaty, filthy, and dangerous are all words that can describe the work of the teams of firefighters who join together to contain and control...
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Review of Friend of Numbers: The Life of Mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan
Friend of Numbers: The Life of Mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan by Priya Narayanan; illus. by Satwik GadePrimary, Intermediate Eerdmans 40 pp.10/23 9780802856081 $17.99Born in 1887 in southern India, Srinivasa Ramanujan would, before his untimely death in 1920, become one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century. In an admiring...
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Review of Plague-Busters!: Medicine’s Battles with History’s Deadliest Diseases
Plague-Busters!: Medicine’s Battles with History’s Deadliest Diseases by Lindsey Fitzharris and Adrian Teal; illus. by Adrian TealIntermediate, Middle School Bloomsbury 176 pp.10/23 9781547606030 $19.99e-book ed. 9781547606047 $13.99Living through a global pandemic has brought epidemiological thinking to the forefront of pop-science. Those who would like to learn about diseases (mostly) defeated...
Review of Rock, Rosetta, Rock! Roll, Rosetta, Roll!: Presenting Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Godmother of Rock & Roll
Rock, Rosetta, Rock! Roll, Rosetta, Roll!: Presenting Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Godmother of Rock & Roll by Tonya Bolden; illus. by R. Gregory Christie Primary Harper/HarperCollins 40 pp. 2/23 9780062994387 $18.99 Rosetta Tharpe’s (1915–1973) music would influence some of the biggest stars of the twentieth century—from Chuck Berry and Little...
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Review of When Moon Became the Moon
When Moon Became the Moon by Rob Hodgson; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Rise/Penguin Workshop 64 pp.8/23 9780593523629 $18.99e-book ed. 9780593657942 $11.99A cheery picture book introduces Earth’s moon, its origin, and its importance to our planet. Straightforward, developmentally appropriate scientific explanations (“Then, Earth used a special force, called gravity, to...
Review of Contenders: Two Native Baseball Players, One World Series
Contenders: Two Native Baseball Players, One World Series by Traci Sorell; illus. by Arigon Starr Primary Kokila/Penguin 48 pp. 4/23 9780593496472 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780593406489 $11.99 Baseball’s 1911 World Series was the first to feature a match-up between two Native players. Future Hall-of-Fame pitcher Charles Bender (Ojibwe) would pitch in three...
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