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Review of A Shot in the Arm!
A Shot in the Arm! [Big Ideas That Changed the World] by Don Brown; illus. by the author Intermediate, Middle School Amulet/Abrams 144 pp. g 3/21 978-1-4197-5001-4 $13.99 e-book ed. 978-1-64700-090-5 $12.59 In this third installment of his Big Ideas That Changed the World comic-format series, Brown lays out the...
Review of The Floating Field: How a Group of Thai Boys Built Their Own Soccer Field
The Floating Field: How a Group of Thai Boys Built Their Own Soccer Field by Scott Riley; illus. by Nguyen Quang and Kim Lien Primary, Intermediate Millbrook 40 pp. g 3/21 978-1-5415-7915-6 $19.99 e-book ed. 978-1-7284-1900-8 $9.99 Young Prasit Hemmin and his friends loved soccer. But because their small island...
Review of Meltdown: Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Disaster in Fukushima
Meltdown: Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Disaster in Fukushima by Deirdre Langeland Middle School, High School Roaring Brook 208 pp. g 2/21 978-1-62672-700-7 $19.99 e-book ed. 978-1-62672-699-4 $10.99 In time for the tenth anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster (March 2011), Langeland chronicles the largest nuclear disaster of the twenty-first century....
Review of Mammoth Science: The Big Ideas That Explain Our World
Mammoth Science: The Big Ideas That Explain Our World by David Macaulay; illus. by the author Intermediate DK 160 pp. g 8/20 978-1-4654-9146-6 $19.99 A unique and amusing encyclopedia of general scientific topics from master draftsman Macaulay, geared to a slightly younger audience than the author’s The Way Things Work...
Review of Your Place in the Universe
Your Place in the Universe by Jason Chin; illus. by the author Primary, Intermediate Porter/Holiday 40 pp. g 9/20 978-0-8234-4623-0 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-0-8234-4878-4 $11.99 The relative sizes of objects can be endlessly fascinating to curious young minds. How many books tall is an eight-year-old? How many eight-year-olds standing on...
Review of Race Through the Skies: The Week the World Learned to Fly
Race Through the Skies: The Week the World Learned to Fly by Martin W. Sandler Middle School Bloomsbury 185 pp. g 7/20 978-1-5476-0344-2 $24.99 The rate of innovation during the first decade of flight is as astounding now as it must have been at the time. Sandler’s compelling look at...
Review of Whoo-Ku Haiku: A Great Horned Owl Story
Whoo-Ku Haiku: A Great Horned Owl Story by Maria Gianferrari; illus. by Jonathan Voss Primary Putnam 32 pp. g 3/20 978-0-399-54842-0 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-0-399-54843-7 $9.99 Readers follow a pair of great horned owls and their owlets from winter into the next autumn in this life-cycle narrative told in haiku....
Review of Dragon Hoops
Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang; illus. by the author; color by Lark Pien High School First Second/Roaring Brook 446 pp. 3/20 978-1-62672-079-4 $24.99 “I’m just not a sports kind of guy,” begins Yang in this comics-format offering that brilliantly combines journalism, memoir, and sports history. Yang, who taught math...
Review of Pie in the Sky
Pie in the Sky by Remy Lai; illus. by the author Intermediate Holt 380 pp. 5/19 978-1-250-31409-3 $21.99 Paper ed. 978-1-250-31410-9 $12.99 It’s been almost two years since Jingwen lost his father in a tragic accident; he now finds himself starting over in a new country. The novel begins with...
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