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Review of Tracking Pythons: The Quest to Catch an Invasive Predator and Save an Ecosystem
Tracking Pythons: The Quest to Catch an Invasive Predator and Save an Ecosystem by Kate Messner Intermediate, Middle School Millbrook 64 pp. 3/20 978-1-5415-5706-2 $31.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5415-8379-5 $31.99 This thoroughly engrossing field guide takes readers into the “scrublands and swamps” of South Florida, where scientists are battling the explosive...
Review of Go with the Flow
Go with the Flow by Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann; illus. by Lily Williams Middle School, High School First Second/Roaring Brook $14.99 1/20 978-1-250-30572-5 $21.99 Paper ed. 978-1-250-14317-4 $14.99 After noticing bloodstains on new-girl Sasha’s white pants, longtime friends Abby, Christine, and Brit swoop in and save the day. It’s...
Review of Her Fearless Run: Kathrine Switzer's Historic Boston Marathon
Her Fearless Run: Kathrine Switzer’s Historic Boston Marathon by Kim Chaffee; illus. by Ellen Rooney Primary Page Street 40 pp. 4/19 978-1-62414-654-1 $17.99 This stirring picture-book biography introduces Kathrine Switzer, the first woman to run the Boston Marathon with an official race number. “Running was magic” to twelve-year-old Kathrine, but...
Review of Reaching for the Moon: The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson
Reaching for the Moon: The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson by Katherine Johnson Intermediate, Middle School Atheneum 250 pp. 7/19 978-1-5344-4083-8 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5344-4085-2 $10.99 To help her older brother with his math work at school, Katherine Johnson hatched a plan. She joined his class for a day...
Review of How Many?: A Different Kind of Counting Book
How Many?: A Different Kind of Counting Book [Talking Math] by Christopher Danielson; photos by Scott Dorrance Preschool, Primary Charlesbridge 40 pp. 9/19 978-1-58089-943-7 $15.99 Paper ed. 978-1-58089-945-1 $7.99 e-book ed. 978-1-63289-813-5 $6.99 Danielson upends the traditional counting book format by letting viewers decide for themselves what to count. Take,...
Review of Skulls!
Skulls! by Blair Thornburgh; illus. by Scott Campbell Primary Atheneum 40 pp. 7/19 978-1-5344-1400-6 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5344-1401-3 $10.99 “You probably don’t think much about skulls,” the book begins, as readers meet a round-faced girl with puffball pigtails. A page-turn places the girl, who’s contentedly chomping on an apple, amid...
Review of A Computer Called Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Helped Put America on the Moon
A Computer Called Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Helped Put America on the Moon by Suzanne Slade; illus. by Veronica Miller Jamison Primary Little, Brown 40 pp. 3/19 978-0-316-43517-8 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-0-316-51131-5 $9.99 Math genius Katherine Johnson (née Coleman) was a star student, twice skipping a grade before her family...
Review of Nine Months: Before a Baby Is Born
Nine Months: Before a Baby Is Bornby Miranda Paul; illus. by Jason ChinPrimary Porter/Holiday 32 pp.4/19 978-0-8234-4161-7 $18.99e-book ed. 978-0-8234-4213-3 $18.99A pithy quintain describes the moment a fertilized human egg becomes a two-celled zygote: “Small. / Ball. / The point of a pin. / Then it divides… / Our story begins.” It’s the first...
Review of Snowman − Cold = Puddle: Spring Equations
Snowman − Cold = Puddle: Spring Equationsby Laura Purdie Salas; illus. by Micha ArcherPrimary Charlesbridge 32 pp.2/19 978-1-58089-798-3 $16.99e-book ed. 978-1-63289-643-8 $9.99This whimsical celebration of spring-time features a playful equation poem on every page. Take the titular “snowman – cold = puddle.” It’s a subtraction sentence — minus the usual...