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Review of Something to Say
Something to Say by Lisa Moore Ramée; illus. by Bre Indigo Intermediate, Middle School Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 373 pp. g 7/20 978-0-06-283671-7 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-283673-1 $9.99 Janae is a loner and plans to keep it that way in middle school, that is, until she meets outgoing, audacious Aubrey, who...
Review of Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero
Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero by Kelly J. Baptist Intermediate, Middle School Crown 195 pp. g 8/20 978-0-593-12136-8 $16.99 Library ed. 978-0-593-12137-5 $19.99 e-book ed. 978-0-593-12138-2 $9.99 Isaiah Dunn is not your typical hero. Heroes usually win, but Isaiah seems to experience a lot of losses: losing his father on...
Review of Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom
Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford; illus. by Michele Wood Primary, Intermediate Candlewick 56 pp. g 4/20 978-0-7636-9156-1 $17.99 “I entered the world a slave…I was a slave because my countrymen had made it lawful, in utter contempt of the declared will of heaven.” Our...
Review of Not So Pure and Simple
Not So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles High School HarperTeen 391 pp. 1/20 978-0-06-234919-4 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-234921-7 $9.99 Del’s forever crush on schoolmate Kiera comes to a head when she finally becomes single in their junior year of high school. Del is poised to do whatever it takes...
Review of Jackpot
Jackpot by Nic Stone High School Crown 341 pp. g 10/19 978-1-9848-2962-7 $17.99 Library ed. 978-1-9848-2963-4 $20.99 e-book ed. 978-1-9848-2964-1 $10.99 School, work, home; repeat. Such is the life of Rico, high school senior, part-time convenience-store clerk, and full-time caregiver to her nine-year-old brother. In Rico’s life, there is not...
Review of Genesis Begins Again
Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams Middle School Dlouhy/Atheneum 386 pp. g 1/19 978-1-4814-6580-9 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-4814-6582-3 $10.99 Regina and the popular girls are coming over after school to hang out, eat snacks, and watch music videos. It’s a dream day for thirteen-year-old Genesis. That is, until she...
Review of Sulwe
Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o; illus. by Vashti Harrison Preschool, Primary Simon 48 pp. 10/19 978-1-5344-2536-1 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5344-2537-8 $10.99 In a story partially based on the author’s childhood in Kenya, “Sulwe was born the color of midnight.” So begins a journey to self-love for a little girl whose name...
Review of Light It Up
Light It Up by Kekla Magoon Middle School, High School Holt 359 pp. g 10/19 978-1-250-12889-8 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-1-250-12890-4 $9.99 In this follow-up to How It Went Down (rev. 11/14), Peach Street is seething. Two years after a young man was gunned down by police on the same street,...
The Undefeated
“This is for the unforgettable / The swift and sweet ones / who hurdled history / and opened a world / of possible.” From the opening lines of Kwame Alexander’s poem, readers are invited on a journey. It is a journey through a people’s story — through the sorrows, triumphs, and resilience...