Amanda R. Toledo
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Review of Saturdays at Harlem Grown: How One Big Idea Transformed a Neighborhood
Saturdays at Harlem Grown: How One Big Idea Transformed a Neighborhood by Tony Hillery; illus. by Jessie HartlandPreschool, Primary Wiseman/Simon 48 pp.7/24 9781665929783 $18.99e-book ed. 9781665929790 $10.99Mr. Tony and his student, Nevaeh, plot during the winter months how to bring their community garden in Harlem into bloom with a spring...
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Review of Not Nothing
Not Nothing by Gayle FormanMiddle School Aladdin/Simon 288 pp.8/24 9781665943277 $17.99e-book ed. 9781665943291 $10.99Readers learn two things at the beginning of this novel: twelve-year-old Alex did something terrible, and he hates the word opportunity. The word has only come up in the worst moments of Alex’s life, most recently when...
Review of The Lumbering Giants of Windy Pines
The Lumbering Giants of Windy Pines by Mo NetzIntermediate, Middle School Clarion/HarperCollins 208 pp.3/24 9780063266537 $18.99e-book ed. 9780063266551 $10.99After the death of her father and the subsequent loss of their house, Jerry (almost twelve) and her mom drift from small town to small town, her mom finding work in motels...
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Review of Eyes Open
Eyes Open by Lyn Miller-Lachmann High School Carolrhoda Lab 352 pp.5/24 9798765610114 $19.99In this verse novel, Sónia is living to the fullest as much as a fifteen-year-old girl can under the Salazar dictatorship in 1960s Portugal. She writes free-verse poetry, though the nuns at school deride it; loves her protester...
Review of So Let Them Burn
So Let Them Burn [Divine Traitors]by Kamilah ColeHigh School Little, Brown 400 pp.1/24 9780316534635 $19.99e-book ed. 9780316534840 $12.99Seventeen-year-old Faron is the Childe Empyrean, blessed five years ago to wield the power of her island’s gods. Now that San Irie’s war against the colonizing Langlish and their dragons is won, Faron...
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Review of Mani Semilla Finds Her Quetzal Voice
Mani Semilla Finds Her Quetzal Voice by Anna LaperaMiddle School Levine/Levine Querido 336 pp.3/24 9781646143719 $18.99Boys at seventh grader Mani’s school have been assaulting girls in the “grope-’n’-go” social media challenge, and school administrators dismiss the boys’ behavior. Overwhelmed with emotion in reaction to the situation at school, Mani can...
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Review of The Fall of Whit Rivera
The Fall of Whit Rivera by Crystal MaldonadoHigh School Holiday 320 pp.10/23 9780823452361 $19.99e-book ed. 9780823457250 $11.99It’s the beginning of Whit’s senior year, and after a summer spent in doctors’ offices instead of at the pool with her friends or video-chatting with her now-long-distance boyfriend, she is ready to get...
Review of Something like Home
Something like Home by Andrea Beatriz ArangoIntermediate, Middle School Random 256 pp.9/23 9780593566183 $17.99Library ed. 9780593566190 $20.99e-book ed. 9780593566206 $10.99Spanish ed. 9781644738696 $14.95If only life were as straightforward as the Rubik’s Cube that Laura loves to solve. When this Virginia-set verse novel begins, the Puerto Rican sixth grader is on...
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Review of Secret of the Moon Conch
Secret of the Moon Conch by David Bowles and Guadalupe García McCallHigh School Bloomsbury 464 pp.6/23 9781547609895 $19.99e-book ed. 9781547609901 $13.99In 2019, the night before she plans to flee Mexico for the U.S. seeking safety and her father, Sitlali discovers a conch in ocean waves. Five centuries earlier, in 1521,...
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