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Review of Dear Beast
Dear Beast by Dori Hillestad Butler; illus. by Kevan Atteberry Primary Holiday 77 pp. g 5/20 978-0-8234-4492-2 $15.99 Having two pets in two separate homes can spark a bit of territorialism, so when Andy announces he has a new dog at Dad’s house, Simon, the cat who lives at Andy’s...
Review of Things Seen from Above
Things Seen from Above by Shelley Pearsall; illus. by Xingye Jin Intermediate Knopf 262 pp. 2/20 978-1-5247-1739-1 $16.99 Library ed. 978-1-5247-1740-7 $19.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5247-1741-4 $9.99 April, beginning sixth grade and dealing with her own friendship issues, takes an interest in a younger student with puzzling behaviors and a surprising...
Review of Nana Akua Goes to School
Nana Akua Goes to School by Tricia Elam Walker; illus. by April Harrison Primary Schwartz & Wade/Random 40 pp. g 6/20 978-0-525-58113-0 $17.99 Library ed. 978-0-525-58114-7 $20.99 e-book ed. 978-0-525-58115-4 $10.99 Although her grandmother, Nana Akua, is her “favorite person in the whole universe,” young Zura is not excited about...
Review of Swing
Swing by Michael Hall; illus. by the author Preschool Greenwillow 40 pp. g 5/20 978-0-06-286617-2 $17.99 The title spread introduces a school — a place of learning and growth — where outside the classroom window a swing set stands empty and waiting. A letter L sits alone on one of...
Review of Worse Than Weird
Worse Than Weird by Jody J. Little Intermediate, Middle School Harper/HarperCollins 265 pp. 3/20 978-06-285258-8 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-285253-3 $7.99 Expressing disapproval of one’s parents’ values and lifestyles is a rite of passage for many tweens, and Mac (short for MacKenna MacKensie MacLeod) is no exception. Her family lives off...
Review of The Water Bears
The Water Bears by Kim Baker Intermediate Lamb/Random 264 pp. g 4/20 978-1-9848-5220-5 $16.99 Library ed. 978-1-9848-5221-2 $19.99 e-book ed. 978-1-9848-5222-9 $9.99 Newt Gomez dreams of leaving Murphy Island, his isolated home in the Pacific Northwest — especially after he was attacked by a bear a year ago, which left...
Review of Again Again
Again Again by E. Lockhart High School Delacorte 293 pp. g 6/20 978-0-385-74479-9 $18.99 Library ed. 978-0-375-99185-1 $21.99 e-book ed. 978-0-385-39139-9 $10.99 In this novel set in the same world as The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks (rev. 5/08), Lockhart explores the intersection between love and the multiverse. The summer...
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....
Cadenza: The Rules That "Jack" Broke
This is the house that Jack built… / This is the cat, / That killed the rat, / That ate the malt / that lay in the house that Jack built. This is the noun that noun verbed… / This is the noun, / That verbed the noun, / That...
Review of Most Wanted: The Revolutionary Partnership of John Hancock & Samuel Adams
Most Wanted: The Revolutionary Partnership of John Hancock & Samuel Adams by Sarah Jane Marsh; illus. by Edwin Fotheringham Intermediate Little, Brown 80 pp. g 3/20 978-1-368-02683-3 $19.99 e-book ed. 978-1-368-06129-2 $12.99 Here readers meet the original American political odd couple: Samuel Adams, the serious and staunch patriot, and John...