. Dean Schneider
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Review of Breaking into Sunlight
Breaking into Sunlight by John CochranMiddle School Algonquin 304 pp.6/24 9781523527298 $17.99e-book ed. 9781523529049 $9.99Seventh grader Reese Buck has never told his best friends, Tony and Ryan, about his father’s drug addiction problems; he doesn’t want to be ostracized or seen as “that kid everyone felt sorry for.” When Reese...
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Review of Pizza Face
Pizza Face by Rex Ogle; illus. by Dave Valeza; color by Ash SzymanikIntermediate, Middle School Graphix/Scholastic 224 pp.7/24 9781338575040 $24.99Paper ed. 9781338574999 $12.99e-book ed. 9781338575019 $12.99“Heck, I start seventh grade next week. I’m practically a man,” proclaims Rex (Four Eyes, rev. 7/23), but he wakes up on the first day...
Review of The Bletchley Riddle
The Bletchley Riddle by Ruta Sepetys and Steve SheinkinMiddle School, High School Viking 400 pp.10/24 9780593527542 $18.99e-book ed. 9780593527566 $10.99It’s the summer of 1940 in this collaboration between Sepetys (whose historical fiction for older readers includes, recently, I Must Betray You, rev. 5/22) and Sheinkin (primarily nonfiction, recently Impossible Escape,...
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Review of Wild Wave
Wild Wave by Rodman PhilbrickIntermediate, Middle School Scholastic 192 pp.8/24 9781338882315 $18.99e-book ed. 9781339017860 $18.99On a Saturday morning two weeks before school ends for the summer, Nick Chase is on a tour of a local animal sanctuary when an earthquake hits Cape Courage, New Jersey, and the world he knew...
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Review of Clara Poole and the Wrong Way Up
Clara Poole and the Wrong Way Up [Clara Poole]by Taylor TyngIntermediate, Middle School Pixel + Ink/Holiday 368 pp.7/24 9781645951629 $18.99e-book ed. 9781645951636 $11.99After winning the hot-air balloon race in Clara Poole and the Long Way Round (rev. 9/23), Clara is deflated to find she must compete for a place at...
Reading with Mimi: Growing Up Immersed in Books
“Beams of light from the setting sun entered through the cracks in the boards. / Specks of dust danced in the air. The yellow marble glowed like a lamp. / The silver sardine can shone. / All was hushed, still.” — Orris and Timble: The Beginning by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated...
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Review of There Was a Shadow
There Was a Shadow by Bruce Handy; illus. by Lisk FengPrimary Enchanted Lion 56 pp.5/24 9781592704064 $18.95Handy and Feng explore and celebrate the juxtaposition of light and shadow from sunrise to sunset. With daybreak brings the opening lines: “There was a shadow. It was a new shadow, but also the...
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Review of The Strange Wonders of Roots
The Strange Wonders of Roots by Evan Griffith Intermediate, Middle School Quill Tree/HarperCollins 304 pp.5/24 9780063287969 $19.99e-book ed. 9780063287983 $9.99In the five years since her parents divorced, twelve-year-old Holly has lived in and visited lots of places with her actor father; she is used to not feeling rooted in any...
The Robin Smith Picture Book Prize
Photo courtesy of Dean Schneider. I bet I’m the only grown person (near-elderly, actually) to have burst into tears in a Mac Barnett signing line. The book was The Wolf, the Duck, and the Mouse written by Barnett and illustrated by Jon Klassen, and it was the inaugural winner of...
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