Anita L. Burkam

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Review of The Last Dragon on Mars

The Last Dragon on Mars [Dragonships]by Scott ReintgenIntermediate, Middle School    Aladdin/Simon    384 pp.10/24    9781665946513    $18.99e-book ed.  9781665946537    $10.99Mars-born Lunar Jones is a salvager on the dying planet, trying to find enough old technology to sell to keep his fellow orphans fed. When rival scrappers attempt to kill him to steal...
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Review of Like a Curse

Like a Curse by Elle McNicollIntermediate    Random    304 pp.10/24    9780593649527    $17.99e-book ed.  9780593649541    $10.99Ramya (Like a Charm, rev. 11/23) has been sent to Loch Ness to study witchcraft with her aunt, but when her cousin Marley arrives, they learn that Portia, a siren who previously broke up Ramya’s family, has...
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Review of Heir

Heir by Sabaa TahirHigh School    Putnam    512 pp.10/24    9780593616949    $21.99e-book ed.  9780593616956    $10.99This epic-length fantasy novel (the start of a new duology set in the world of An Ember in the Ashes and sequels) follows three disparate characters: Aiz, who fails to assassinate her oppressor and is taken to prison...
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Review of Night Owls

Night Owls by A. R. VishnyHigh School    Harper/HarperCollins    368 pp.9/24    9780063327306    $19.99e-book ed.  9780063327320    $10.99Clara and Molly are posing as young women who run the Grand Dame in New York City’s East Village, a movie house that started life as a Yiddish theater. In fact, the sisters are two undead...
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Review of Splinter & Ash

Splinter & Ash by Marieke NijkampIntermediate, Middle School    Greenwillow    368 pp.9/24    9780063326262    $18.99e-book ed.  9780063326286    $9.99Princess Ash, feeling alone at court and conspicuous with her cane and braces, makes the daring move of taking Splinter as her squire—Splinter, who isn’t a boy, but “not a girl, either” (referred to with...
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Review of Impossible Creatures

Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell; illus. by Ashley MackenzieMiddle School    Knopf    368 pp.9/24    9780593809860    $19.99Library ed.  9780593809877    $22.99e-book ed.  9780593809884    $10.99When Christopher finds a wounded baby griffin in a Scottish lake, his grandfather reveals that he is (and Christopher will be, when he comes of age) a guardian of the...
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Review of The Mailbox Tree

The Mailbox Tree by Rebecca Lim and Kate GordonIntermediate    Walker Books    240 pp.8/24    9781760659417    $18.99Furious at her father’s plans to move them to the ­Northland away from her home in Tasmania (sea-level rise is making the island uninhabitable), Nyx scrawls an angry missive and shoves it into a knothole in...
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Review of Sunderworld, Vol. I: The Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry

Sunderworld, Vol. I: The Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry by Ransom RiggsHigh School    Dutton    336 pp.8/24    9780593530931    $21.99e-book ed.  9780593530955    $10.99Leopold Berry lives in Los Angeles in a world like our own, but since his mother’s death when he was twelve, he has experienced dissociative episodes in which he sees...
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Review of Noah Frye Gets Crushed

Noah Frye Gets Crushed by Maggie Horne Middle School    Harper/HarperCollins    272 pp.5/24    9780063285194    $18.99e-book ed.  9780063285217    $8.99When Noah returns from summer camp to learn that her two best friends have each had their first kiss with a boy, she worries about being left behind in this new phase of development....
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