Julie Hakim Azzam
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Review of Grenade audiobook
Grenade by Alan Gratz; read by Todd Haberkorn and Andrew Eiden Middle School, High School Scholastic Audio Rev. 11/18 5 CDs 5.42 hrs. 978-1-338-31100-6 $29.99 Set on the island of Okinawa during the American invasion, this WWII story begins by alternating viewpoints (voiced by two different actors) between Hideki, an...
Review of Riding a Donkey Backwards: Wise and Foolish Tales of Mulla Nasruddin
Riding a Donkey Backwards: Wise and Foolish Tales of Mulla Nasruddin retold by Sean Taylor and the Khayaal Theatre; illus. by Shirin Adl Primary Candlewick 48 pp. 8/19 978-1-5362-0507-7 $18.99 Mulla Nasruddin, as the preface explains, is a pan-Muslim trickster figure who has captivated storytellers for generations and whose actions...
Review of Blood Water Paint audiobook
Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough; read by Xe Sands High School Listening Library 3 CDs 3.87 hrs. 978-1-9848-2899-6 $15.00 In her youth, Artemisia Gentileschi, the renowned Italian Baroque painter, assisted her painter father, Orazio Gentileschi, while struggling to achieve her own artistic vision. Artemisia’s mother told her the biblical...
Review of The Parrot and the Merchant: A Tale by Rumi
The Parrot and the Merchant: A Tale by Rumi retold by Marjan Vafaeian; illus. by the author;
trans. from the Persian by Azita Rassi Primary Tiny Owl 32 pp. 5/19 978-1-910328-03-3 $16.99 Mah Jahan, a wealthy Persian merchant, collects birds during her travels, keeping them “in cages or chains so...
Review of Pay Attention, Carter Jones audiobook
Pay Attention, Carter Jones by Gary Schmidt; read by Christopher Gebauer Middle School Recorded Books Rev. 1/19 5 CDs 5.18 hrs. 978-1-9800-1047-0 $15.99 Having been bequeathed to sixth-grader Carter’s household by his deceased grandfather, English butler and “gentleman’s gentleman” Mr. Bowles-Fitzpatrick appears at the door on the first day of...
Review of Lion of the Sky: Haiku for All Seasons
Lion of the Sky: Haiku for All Seasonsby Laura Purdie Salas; illus. by Mercè LópezPrimary Millbrook 32 pp.4/19 978-1-5124-9809-7 $19.99e-book ed. 978-1-5415-4383-6 $19.99Salas presents a volume of “riddle-ku” poems, a form that is a cross between riddles, haiku, and “mask poems” (poems narrated by “something nonhuman”). The book is divided...
Review of Poetree
Poetreeby Shauna LaVoy Reynolds; illus. by Shahrzad MaydaniPrimary Dial 32 pp. g3/19 978-0-399-53912-1 $17.99To celebrate the end of winter, young poetry lover Sylvia writes a poem about spring and ties it to a birch tree in the park. The next day her poem is gone; in its place is another...
Review of The Bridge Home
The Bridge Home by Padma VenkatramanIntermediate, Middle School Paulsen/Penguin 194 pp. g2/19 978-1-5247-3811-2 $16.99 In a drunken rage, the father of eleven-year-old narrator Viji breaks her mother’s arm. Viji decides, “If I wanted a better future, I needed to change the life we had. Now.” The next morning, she and her sister...
Review of Refugee audiobook
Refugeeby Alan Gratz; read by Michael Goldstrom, Kyla Garcia, and Assaf CohenIntermediate, Middle School Scholastic Audio Rev. 11/177 CDs 7.62 hrs. 978-1-338-19107-3 $34.99The difficult plight of refugees is here represented by the stories of three children from different locations and time periods. Josef, a Jewish boy living in Nazi Germany,...