Book Reviews
The Old Truck by Jarrett Pumphrey and Jerome Pumphrey; illus. by the authors Preschool, Primary Norton 40 pp. 1/20 978-1-324-00519-3 $17.95 e-book ed. 978-1-324-00520-9 $12.15 The author-illustrator brothers tell the story of a family farm and the truck that assists with chores. As the hard-working truck ages, so does the...
The List of Things That Will Not Change by Rebecca Stead Intermediate Lamb/Random 218 pp. g 4/20 978-1-101-93809-6 $16.99 Library ed. 978-1-101-93810-2 $19.99 e-book ed. 978-1-101-93811-9 $9.99 From the outside it appears that Bea lives a charmed life. She has loving (albeit divorced) parents; an involved extended family; a kindly, funny teacher; a loyal...
Vow of Thieves by Mary E. Pearson High School Holt 484 pp. 8/19 978-1-250-16265-6 $19.99 Jase and Kazi (from Dance of Thieves, rev. 11/18) are on their way back to Hell’s Mouth with news that Tor’s Watch is to be recognized as a kingdom and that Jase’s family, the Ballengers,...
The Empire of Dreams by Rae Carson High School Greenwillow 442 pp. g 4/20 978-0-06-269190-3 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-269192-7 $10.99 Set in the world of The Girl of Fire and Thorns, this engrossing fantasy follows two threads about protagonist Red. In the present, the teenager is devastated when her planned...
The Queen of Nothing [Folk of the Air] by Holly Black High School Little, Brown 293 pp. g 11/19 978-0-316-31042-0 $19.99 e-book ed. 978-0-316-31040-6 $12.99 In a stunning act of betrayal, the High King, Cardan, exiled Jude (secretly his wife and the ostensible Queen of Faerie) to the mortal world...
Kingdom of Souls by Rena Barron High School HarperTeen 490 pp. 9/19 978-0-06-287095-7 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-287097-1 $8.99 Arrah was born into a family of powerful witchdoctors, though magic has always evaded her. But when children are abducted and omens of death appear in the market streets, Arrah doesn’t need...
Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi High School Holt 405 pp. 12/19 978-1-250-17099-6 $19.99 In Orïsha, where magic has recently been restored (Children of Blood and Bone, rev. 5/18), Princess Amari tries to unite the kingdom to prevent it being torn apart by the magic-using rebels called the...
York: The Clockwork Ghost by Laura Ruby Middle School Walden Pond/HarperCollins 449 pp. 5/19 978-0-06-230696-8 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-230698-2 $7.99 Despite the destruction of their beloved apartment building at the end of the previous book (York: The Shadow Cipher, rev. 5/17), codebreaking twins Theo and Tess Biedermann, along with artistic...
The Peacock Detectives by Carly Nugent Intermediate, Middle School Harper/HarperCollins 282 pp. 1/20 978-0-06-289670-4 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-289672-8 $7.99 Cassie is enlisted by her neighbors to find their missing peacocks — again — because of her skill at noticing details. But there are plenty of other things for the Australian...
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