Reviews of the Week
Let Me Hear a Rhyme by Tiffany D. Jackson; with lyrics by Malik “Malik-16” Sharif High School Tegen/HarperCollins 380 pp. 5/19 978-0-06-284032-5 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-284034-9 $9.99 It’s 1998, and hip-hop reigns supreme on the music charts and in the streets of Brooklyn. Unfortunately, the violence plaguing the community claims...
What Kind of Car Does a T. Rex Drive? by Mark Lee; illus. by Brian Biggs Preschool, Primary Putnam 40 pp. g 5/19 978-1-5247-4123-5 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5247-4124-2 $10.99 Used-car salesman Uncle Otto, desperate to make a sale, vows to “sell a car to anyone — or anything — that...
Thinker: My Puppy Poet and Me by Eloise Greenfield; illus. by Ehsan Abdollahi Primary Sourcebooks Jabberwocky 40 pp. g 4/19 978-1-4926-7724-6 $15.99 Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award recipient Greenfield (Honey, I Love and Other Love Poems; Nathaniel Talking, rev. 9/90; The Great Migration, rev. 1/11) here presents a series of...
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...
Juana & Lucas: Big Problemas by Juana Medina; illus. by the author Primary, Intermediate Candlewick 89 pp. 5/19 978-1-5362-0131-4 $14.99 This sequel to Juana & Lucas (rev. 11/16) offers welcome narrative continuity for fans of Bogotá–dwelling protagonist Juana Medina Rosas and her beloved pet dog Lucas, while skillfully balancing changes...
If I Was the Sunshine by Julie Fogliano; illus. by Loren Long Preschool Atheneum 48 pp. 5/19 978-1-4814-7243-2 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-4814-7244-9 $10.99 Fogliano and Long present a big, handsome picture book with a poetic text and lush full-bleed acrylic illustrations, highlighting the natural world and relationships within it. The...
Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience edited by Patrice Vecchione and Alyssa Raymond Middle School, High School Triangle Square/Seven Stories 183 pp. 3/19 Paper ed. 978-1-60980-907-2 $15.95 ebook ed. 978-1-60980-908-9 $13.99 Poems as piercing and reflective as the shards of a shattered mirror offer stunning...
The Lost Forest by Phyllis Root; illus. by Betsy Bowen Primary University of Minnesota 40 pp. 4/19 978-0-8166-9796-0 $17.95 In 1882, a survey team mapping out the wilderness areas of Minnesota made a mistake. As the land was being divided into townships, one of the surveying crew came to Township...
Pie in the Sky by Remy Lai; illus. by the author Intermediate Holt 380 pp. 5/19 978-1-250-31409-3 $21.99 Paper ed. 978-1-250-31410-9 $12.99 It’s been almost two years since Jingwen lost his father in a tragic accident; he now finds himself starting over in a new country. The novel begins with...
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