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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...
Review of Pay Attention, Carter Jones
Pay Attention, Carter Jonesby Gary D. SchmidtMiddle School Clarion 216 pp. g2/19 978-0-544-79085-8 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-1-328-52691-5 $9.99 Sixth grader Carter Jones misses his soldier father, currently deployed in Germany; he misses his dead brother; he misses any semblance of normalcy in his life. When Mr. Bowles-Fitzpatrick, a butler bequeathed to his...
Review of Rebound
Reboundby Kwame Alexander; illus. by Dawud AnyabwileIntermediate, Middle School Houghton 414 pp.4/18 978-0-544-86813-7 $16.99In this prequel to Alexander’s Newbery Medal–winning The Crossover (rev. 5/14), it’s the summer of 1988, and twelve-year-old Charlie Bell would rather roller-skate with his two best friends or escape into the pages of his beloved Fantastic...
Review of Pass the Ball, Mo!
Pass the Ball, Mo!by David A. Adler; illus. by Sam RicksPrimary Penguin 32 pp. g1/18 978-0-425-28978-5 $14.99In this third Mo Jackson easy reader (Geisel Award–winner Don’t Throw It to Mo!; Get a Hit, Mo!), Mo has found a new sports obsession. The ever-enthusiastic boy has basketball on the brain both...
Dazzle Ships
A nonfiction picture book from a small publisher does not necessarily scream CALDECOTT, but even from across the room, one look at the cover of Chris Barton and Victo Ngai’s Dazzle Ships: World War I and the Art of Confusion would likely make you reconsider.The story of these wildly patterned WWI...
After the Fall
At the start of each school year, I choose one picture book to read to every class when the students come for library orientation. I like the idea of building a community around a shared understanding, as well as sharing a great new book with all of our students. Last...