Anita L. Burkam
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Review of The Midnight Lie
The Midnight Lie by Marie Rutkoski High School Farrar 358 pp. 3/20 978-0-374-30638-0 $18.99 As a member of the Half Kith (the lowest, most oppressed caste in society), Nirrim is focused on avoiding the notice of the militia, who extract tithes of blood, hair, and teeth from Half Kith they...
Review of The Magnolia Sword: A Ballad of Mulan
The Magnolia Sword: A Ballad of Mulan by Sherry Thomas Middle School, High School Tu/Lee & Low 348 pp. g 9/19 978-1-62014-804-4 $19.95 Mulan has studied martial arts since childhood to prepare for her generation’s duel against a rival family for possession of two legendary swords. But the duel is postponed...
Review of The Empire of Dreams
The Empire of Dreams by Rae Carson High School Greenwillow 442 pp. g 4/20 978-0-06-269190-3 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-269192-7 $10.99 Set in the world of The Girl of Fire and Thorns, this engrossing fantasy follows two threads about protagonist Red. In the present, the teenager is devastated when her planned...
Review of Children of Virtue and Vengeance
Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi High School Holt 405 pp. 12/19 978-1-250-17099-6 $19.99 In Orïsha, where magic has recently been restored (Children of Blood and Bone, rev. 5/18), Princess Amari tries to unite the kingdom to prevent it being torn apart by the magic-using rebels called the...
Review of The Thief Knot: A Greenglass House Story
The Thief Knot: A Greenglass House Story by Kate Milford; illus. by Jaime Zollars Intermediate, Middle School Clarion 456 pp. 1/20 978-1-328-46689-1 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-358-16427-2 $9.99 In the Liberty, a part of Nagspeake (Greenglass House, rev. 9/14, and sequels) where retired rogues and smugglers find sanctuary from the long...
Review of The Lost Coast audiobook
The Lost Coast by Amy Rose Capetta; read by Sophie Amoss and Brittany Pressley High School Listening Library Rev. 7/19 7 CDs 8.78 hrs. 978-0-5931-0356-2 $60.00 When Danny moves to Tempest, California, she falls in with a group of witches, the Grays, who need her to help bring back fellow...
Review of The Line Tender audiobook
The Line Tender by Kate Allen; read by Jenna Lamia Intermediate, Middle School Listening Library Rev. 3/19 6 CDs 7.37 hrs. 978-1-9848-4546-7 $50.00 Lucy’s mother, a renowned shark expert, died when Lucy was seven. Now another death shakes Lucy’s world, and she must make sense of this new grief as...
Review of The Whispers audiobook
The Whispers by Greg Howard; read by Kivlighan de Montebello and Robin Miles Intermediate, Middle School Listening Library Rev. 1/19 5 CDs 5.77 hrs. 978-1-9848-3840-7 $45.00 With his mom missing, Riley depends on the Whispers — fairylike beings with the ability to grant wishes, taken from a bedtime story his...
Review of Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 audiobook
Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918by Albert Marrin; read by Jim FrangioneMiddle School, High School Listening Library Rev. 3/185 CDs 5.75 hrs. 978-1-525-52609-4 $45.00Marrin’s account of the flu pandemic that killed millions of people during World War I, plus modern-day efforts to identify that strain and prevent...