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Review of Titan of the Stars
Titan of the Stars by E. K. Johnston High School Tundra 304 pp. 5/25 9781774884089 $19.99 e-book ed. 9781774884096 $10.99 Brief but dire opening vignettes warn readers they’re headed into trouble before the narrative begins at the launch of the Titan, a spaceship (with echoes of the Titanic) on its...
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Review of Gloam
Gloam by Jack MackayIntermediate, Middle School Viking 208 pp.8/25 9780593693834 $17.99e-book ed. 9780593693841 $10.99Following their mother’s death, thirteen-year-old Gwen, her younger siblings, and stepfather Henry move to Gloam Island to live in the children’s late grandmother’s house, which seems spookier than when Grandma was alive. Because Henry has to get...
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Review of Sea Dragons
Sea Dragons [Monsters of Fife]by Jane Yolen; illus. by Celia LowenthalIntermediate, Middle School Charlesbridge Moves 128 pp.6/25 9781623544737 $17.99Fourteen-year-old Cat Douglas is the newest (and smallest) member of her Scottish fishing village’s Royal and Ancient team of monster hunters, led by no-nonsense Mr. Harris, and with classmates Calum and Jamie....
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Review of The Riding Lesson
The Riding Lesson by Jennifer K. Mann; illus. by the authorPrimary Candlewick 56 pp.6/25 9781536235265 $18.99e-book ed. 9781536249170 $18.99Frances describes her first riding lesson at her friend Mae’s horse farm where Mae takes the lead in outfitting Frances in boots and a helmet and showing her how to groom and...
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Review of Fable for the End of the World
Fable for the End of the World by Ava ReidHigh School Harper/HarperCollins 384 pp.3/25 9780063211551 $19.99e-book ed. 9780063211575 $9.99In a future dystopian world where the animals are mutating and the water is rising, Inesa, seventeen, works to stay debt-free from the massive corporation Caerus, which sells poor people the necessities...
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Review of Inkbound: Meticulous Jones and the Skull Tattoo
Inkbound: Meticulous Jones and the Skull Tattoo by Philippa Leathley; illus. by Brie SchmidaIntermediate Harper/HarperCollins 352 pp.1/25 9780063376519 $19.99e-book ed. 9780063376533 $11.99At her “fating” ceremony in an alternate London, ten-year-old Meticulous Jones receives the magical tattoo that reveals her fate: a skull held by a purple glove. Metty (erroneously) believes...
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Review of Chaos King
Chaos King by Kacen CallenderHigh School Tor Teen 384 pp.4/25 9781250890283 $19.99e-book ed. 9781250890290 $11.99Ash Woods, the transmasculine alchemist who saved the city from his father’s destructive magic in Infinity Alchemist (rev. 3/24), begins this novel now licensed, honored by House Alexander, and cohabiting with the two people he fell...
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Review of Zero!: The Number That Almost Wasn’t
Zero!: The Number That Almost Wasn’t by Sarah Albee; illus. by Chris HsuPrimary Charlesbridge 40 pp.3/25 9781623544324 $17.99e-book ed. 9781632893918 $9.99In a cheerful picture book populated by Hsu’s inquisitive cartoon humans, Albee traces the history of the number zero. From the ancient Babylonians who invented place value four thousand years...
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Review of Dead Girls Don’t Dream
Dead Girls Don’t Dream by Nino CipriHigh School Holt 304 pp.11/24 9781250791405 $19.99e-book ed. 9781250791412 $11.99Sisters Riley and Sam help their uncle run his museum of dark folklore and unexplained disappearances next to spooky Voynich Woods. One day, Sam flees into the woods to escape a rude tourist; Riley goes...
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