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Review of The Tinkerers
The Tinkerers by Caroline CarlsonIntermediate, Middle School Candlewick 480 pp.10/25 9781536230505 $18.99Twelve-year-old Peter Huckaby-Green’s life changes when the Tinkerers arrive in his close-knit town of Stargazers Valley. Peter directs the two astromancers to his parents’ inn and agrees to help with their research into starstuff, a magical substance left by...
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Review of The School for Thieves
The School for Thieves by Peter BurnsIntermediate Aladdin/Simon 352 pp.8/25 9781665982283 $18.99When Tom Morgan’s small band of street children is kidnapped and sent to the workhouse, he has no luck getting them out until a man known as the Corsair recruits him to be a student in Beaufort’s School for...
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Review of The Rise of Neptune
The Rise of Neptune [Dragonships]by Scott ReintgenIntermediate, Middle School Aladdin/Simon 432 pp.10/25 9781665946544 $18.99In this sequel to The Last Dragon on Mars (rev. 1/25), Mars is under attack by aliens from Neptune’s largest moon, Triton; and Dread, the newly recognized planetary dragon of Mars, must defend his planet along with...
Review of The Poisoned King
The Poisoned King [Impossible Creatures]by Katherine Rundell; illus. by Ashley MackenzieMiddle School Knopf 304 pp.9/25 9780593809907 $19.99When Christopher Forrester returns to the Glimouria Archipelago, conditions could not be more dire: the ancient, wise dragons are dying, and the dragon Sarkany, on whose back Christopher flew in Impossible Creatures (rev. 9/24),...
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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