Reviews of the Week
Born to Fly: The First Women’s Air Race Across America by Steve Sheinkin; illus. by Bijou Karman Middle School Roaring Brook 264 pp. g 9/19 978-1-62672-130-2 $19.99 “There were about nine thousand licensed pilots in the United States in 1929. Fewer than one hundred of them were women. Of those,...
Becoming Beatriz by Tami Charles High School Charlesbridge Teen 262 pp. g 9/19 978-1-58089-778-5 $17.99 Charles (Like Vanessa, rev. 3/18) presents the story of an Afro–Puerto Rican teen, Beatriz Mendez, who is torn between her own desire to be a dancer and the expectations of her blood and chosen families...
People Share with People by Lisa Wheeler; illus. by Molly Idle Preschool Atheneum 40 pp. 9/19 978-1-5344-2559-0 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5344-2560-6 $10.99 The team behind People Don’t Bite People (rev. 3/18) presents another useful and engaging toddler-skills picture-book primer in rhyme, with child-friendly examples and Idle’s dynamic, appealing illustrations to...
Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough; read by Xe Sands High School Listening Library 3 CDs 3.87 hrs. 978-1-9848-2899-6 $15.00 In her youth, Artemisia Gentileschi, the renowned Italian Baroque painter, assisted her painter father, Orazio Gentileschi, while struggling to achieve her own artistic vision. Artemisia’s mother told her the biblical...
Guts by Raina Telgemeier; illus. by the author; color by Braden Lamb Intermediate Graphix/Scholastic 215 pp. g 9/19 978-0-545-85251-7 $24.99 Paper ed. 978-0-545-85250-0 $12.99 e-book ed. 978-0-545-85253-1 $7.99 In this graphic memoir chronicling her fourth-grade year, Telgemeier (Smile; Sisters, rev. 11/14) shares her childhood experiences with anxiety. A bout with...
Beverly, Right Here by Kate DiCamillo Intermediate, Middle School Candlewick 243 pp. g 9/19 978-0-7636-9464-7 $16.99 In this companion volume to DiCamillo’s Raymie Nightingale (rev. 3/16) and Louisiana’s Way Home (rev. 9/18) — together the books make up a trilogy in which DiCamillo introduces three girls, each meeting individual challenges...
At the Mountain’s Base by Traci Sorell; illus. by Weshoyot Alvitre Preschool, Primary Kokila/Penguin 32 pp. g 9/19 978-0-7352-3060-6 $17.99 In a cabin at the base of a mountain, multiple generations of Cherokee women await the return of their daughter/sister/mother/granddaughter, who is piloting a plane during wartime somewhere far away....
The Parrot and the Merchant: A Tale by Rumi retold by Marjan Vafaeian; illus. by the author;
trans. from the Persian by Azita Rassi Primary Tiny Owl 32 pp. 5/19 978-1-910328-03-3 $16.99 Mah Jahan, a wealthy Persian merchant, collects birds during her travels, keeping them “in cages or chains so...
The Miracle & Tragedy
of the Dionne Quintuplets by Sarah Miller Middle School, High School
Schwartz & Wade/Random 309 pp. 8/19 978-1-5247-1381-2 $17.99 Library ed. 978-1-5247-1382-9 $20.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5247-1383-6 $10.99 The “miracle” referred to in the title was of course the birth of the five identical Dionne sisters in...
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