Reviews of the Week
The Lost Coast by Amy Rose Capetta; read by Sophie Amoss and Brittany Pressley High School Listening Library Rev. 7/19 7 CDs 8.78 hrs. 978-0-5931-0356-2 $60.00 When Danny moves to Tempest, California, she falls in with a group of witches, the Grays, who need her to help bring back fellow...
Being Frog by April Pulley Sayre; photos by the author Preschool, Primary Beach Lane/Simon 32 pp. 2/20 978-1-5344-2881-2 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5344-2882-9 $10.99 A green frog moves through its woodland environment, its motions described in short rhyming sentences that match the pace of the creature as it hunts, crawls, jumps,...
I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Naz Rishi High School HarperTeen 420 pp. g 10/19 978-0-06-274145-5 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-274147-9 $9.99 When the world learns that omnipotent aliens will decide humanity’s fate in eight days, chaos erupts, and three teens strive to make their (potentially) final days count....
Astro Girl by Ken Wilson-Max; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Candlewick 32 pp. 9/19 978-1-5362-0946-4 $16.99 As young Astrid gazes out her bedroom window at the stars, using a hand-held telescope, we see visual evidence of her astronomy obsession all around: a helmet, model rocket ship, etc. The straightforward...
Girl Gone Viral by Arvin Ahmadi; read by Jorjeana Marie High School Listening Library Rev. 9/19 9 CDs 10.4 hrs. 978-1-9848-8588-3 $65.00 High school coding genius Opal Hopper is looking to promote the hottest social media star in virtual reality in order to win a contest that will allow her...
The Poison Eaters: Fighting Danger and Fraud in Our Food and Drugs by Gail Jarrow Middle School, High School Calkins Creek/Boyds Mills & Kane 155 pp. g 10/19 978-1-62979-438-9 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-1-68437-895-1 $11.99 Formaldehyde in milk, cocaine in toothache drops, sausage made from pulverized meat scraps swept off factory...
King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender Intermediate, Middle School Scholastic 263 pp. g 2/20 978-1-338-12933-5 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-338-12935-9 $10.99 In their second middle-grade novel (Hurricane Child, rev. 5/18), set in contemporary small-town Louisiana, Callender masterfully balances resonant themes of grief, love, family, friendship, racism, sexuality, and coming-of-age. Twelve-year-old...
Bear Is Awake!: An Alphabet Story by Hannah E. Harrison; illus. by the author Preschool Dial 32 pp. g 11/19 978-0-399-18666-0 $17.99 In this diverting alphabet story, a bear wakes too early (it's the dead of winter) from hibernation, heads to a girl's cabin in the woods, rings her doorbell—and...
The Line Tender by Kate Allen; read by Jenna Lamia Intermediate, Middle School Listening Library Rev. 3/19 6 CDs 7.37 hrs. 978-1-9848-4546-7 $50.00 Lucy’s mother, a renowned shark expert, died when Lucy was seven. Now another death shakes Lucy’s world, and she must make sense of this new grief as...
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