Anita L. Burkam

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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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Review of The Tontine Caper

The Tontine Caper by Dianne K. Salerni; illus. by Matt SchuIntermediate    Holiday    208 pp.4/25    9780823458103    $18.99e-book ed.  9780823462179    $11.99Salerni (The Carrefour Curse, rev. 3/23) creates a feisty puzzle mystery with a hearty dollop of humor in this intriguing novel. The Precipice Inn welcomes three elderly guests and their families, who...
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Review of The Song of Orphan’s Garden

The Song of Orphan’s Garden by Nicole M. HewittIntermediate, Middle School    Feiwel    352 pp.1/25    9781250906045    $17.99e-book ed.  9781250906052    $9.99In this fantasy novel in verse, spare narration yields jewel-bright imagery of a frozen land where a magic metal—Fermata—is necessary for Humans to buy entrance into the Giants’ jealously guarded, sheltered gardens....
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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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