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Reviews of the 2020 Pura Belpré Author Award winners
Winner Sal & Gabi Break the Universe [Rick Riordan Presents] by Carlos Hernandez Intermediate, Middle School Disney-Hyperion 389 pp. 3/19 978-1-368-02282-8 $16.00 REVIEW TO COME Honor Books The Other Half of Happy by Rebecca Balcárcel Middle School Chronicle 332 pp. 8/19 978-1-4521-6998-9 $16.99 REVIEW TO COME...
Reviews of the 2020 Sibert Award winners
Winner Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard; illus. by Juana Martinez-Neal Preschool, Primary Roaring Brook 48 pp. 10/19 978-1-62672-746-5 $18.99 This affectionate picture book depicts an intergenerational group of Native American family members and friends as they make fry bread together. The text begins: “Fry...
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...
Reviews of the 2020 CSK Illustrator Award winners
Winner The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander; illus. by Kadir Nelson Primary, Intermediate, Middle School Versify/Houghton 40 pp. g 4/19 978-1-328-78096-6 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-358-05761-1 $12.99 Alexander and Nelson honor the achievements, courage, and perseverance of ordinary black people as well as prominent black artists, athletes, and activists. The free-verse poem...
Reviews of the 2020 CSK Author Award winners
Winner New Kid by Jerry Craft; illus. by the author Intermediate, Middle School Harper/HarperCollins 249 pp. g 2/19 978-0-06-269120-0 $21.99 Paper ed. 978-0-06-269119-4 $12.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-269121-7 $10.99 Craft’s engaging graphic novel follows Jordan Banks (an African American seventh grader from Washington Heights) through his first year at the prestigious...
Reviews of the 2020 Newbery Medal Winners
Winner New Kid by Jerry Craft; illus. by the author Intermediate, Middle School Harper/HarperCollins 249 pp. g 2/19 978-0-06-269120-0 $21.99 Paper ed. 978-0-06-269119-4 $12.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-269121-7 $10.99 Craft’s engaging graphic novel follows Jordan Banks (an African American seventh grader from Washington Heights) through his first year at the prestigious...
Reviews of the 2019 Boston Globe–Horn Book Nonfiction Award Winner and Honor Books
Nonfiction WinnerThis Promise of Change: One Girl’s Story in the Fight for School Equalityby Jo Ann Allen Boyce and Debbie LevyIntermediate, Middle School Bloomsbury 311 pp. g1/19 978-1-68119-852-1 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-68119-853-8 $12.59 In 1956 in the small town of Clinton, Tennessee, twelve African American students integrated the all-white high school. Jo Ann...
Review of I Am Farmer: Growing an Environmental Movement in Cameroon
I Am Farmer: Growing an Environmental Movement in Cameroonby Baptiste Paul and Miranda Paul; illus. by Elizabeth ZunonPrimary Millbrook 40 pp. g2/19 978-1-5124-4914-3 $19.99e-book ed. 978-1-5415-4380-5 $19.99 Even as a young child Tantoh Nforba loves the rich soils of his native northwestern Cameroon, earning the nickname “Farmer” from his mocking classmates;...
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 Meet Miss Fancy
Meet Miss Fancyby Irene Latham; illus. by John HolyfieldPrimary Putnam 32 pp. g1/19 978-0-399-54668-6 $17.99 Frank (an African American boy who looks to be about ten years old) already loves elephants, with “their flip-flap ears, their tree-stump feet and their swish-swish tails,” so when he hears that a circus elephant named...
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