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Review of Akim Aliu: Dreamer
Akim Aliu: Dreamer by Akim Aliu with Greg Anderson Elysée; illus. by Karen De la Vega and Marcus Williams Middle School, High School Graphix/Scholastic 128 pp. 2/23 9781338787610 $24.99 Paper ed. 9781338787603 $14.99 Former NHL player Aliu made headlines in 2020 when he shared stories of the racism and hazing...
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Review of Hoops
Hoops by Matt Tavares; illus. by the authorMiddle School Candlewick 224 pp.3/23 9781536201369 $22.99Tavares’s first graphic novel is based on the true story of Judi Warren and the 1976 Warsaw (Indiana) High School girls’ basketball team—its rise from nonexistence before Title IX, to filling the bleachers, to winning the state...
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Review of The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams
The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams by Daniel Nayeri; illus. by Daniel MiyaresIntermediate, Middle School Levine Querido 224 pp.3/23 9781646143030 $21.99Along the medieval Silk Road, a boy is cast out from the temple and nearly stoned to death by monks. He is purchased as a servant by...
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Review of Frances and the Monster
Frances and the Monster by Refe TumaIntermediate Harper/HarperCollins 352 pp.8/22 9780063085787 $17.99e-book ed. 9780063085787 $11.99Ever since a car accident seven years earlier, Frances has not left the old mansion where she lives with her scientist parents, Victor and Mary. While attending a conference, they leave Frances in the care of...
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Review of The Honeys
The Honeys by Ryan La Sala High School PUSH/Scholastic 352 pp. g 8/22 978-1-338-74531-3 $18.99 Aspen is an exclusive Catskills summer camp, ruled by elitism, segregated by gender, and rife with long-entrenched sexism and homophobia. Returning to Aspen after a traumatic exit years before is Mars,...
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Review of Alone Out Here
Alone Out Here by Riley RedgateHigh School Hyperion 400 pp. g4/22 978-1-368-06472-9 $18.99In the near future, scientists predict a volcanic eruption that will render Earth unlivable. The global plan to launch generation ships is fraught with political and technical failure; fifty-three teenagers alone leave Earth on the one viable...
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Review of Lakelore
Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemoreHigh School Feiwel 304 pp. g3/22 978-1-250-62414-7 $18.99e-book ed. 978-1-250-62415-4 $10.99Two teens—both brown, trans, and neurodivergent—reunite years after a chance meeting and find themselves bound together by their most personal experiences and by the magic of a local lake. Bastián copes with ADHD and the next step...
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Review of Bitter
Bitter by Akwaeke EmeziHigh School Knopf 272 pp. g2/22 978-0-593-30903-2 $17.99Library ed. 978-0-593-30904-9 $20.99e-book ed. 978-0-593-30905-6 $10.99In this prequel to Pet (rev. 11/19), teenage Bitter (the mother of that book’s protagonist) agonizes, from the safety of her arts boarding school, over whether her art and survival are morally sufficient answers...
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