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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