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Review of The Unlikely Heroes Club
The Unlikely Heroes Club by Kate FosterIntermediate Candlewick 208 pp.4/25 9781536239041 $17.99e-book ed. 9781536242225 $17.99All eleven-year-old Oli, who is autistic, likes to do is design buildings on his Design-a-House app. He’s called a “wimp” and “boring” at school, but otherwise kids mainly leave him alone. His parents sign him up...
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Review of Is It Real?: The Loch Ness Monster
Is It Real?: The Loch Ness Monster by Candace FlemingIntermediate, Middle School Focus/Scholastic 160 pp.3/25 9781546110286 $26.99Paper ed. 9781339037936 $8.99e-book ed. 9781546110293 $8.99A prehistoric monster was sighted in Loch Ness! People say they have seen it. Newspapers have reported it. But does it really exist? Fleming involves readers in the...
Review of Still Sal
Still Sal by Kevin Henkes; illus. by the author Primary Greenwillow 256 pp. 10/24 9780063389625 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780063389649 $9.99 Sal Miller is six. Her life is changing so much that she tells Papa, “I’m not Sal anymore,” after her two-year-old sister, Poppy, moves into her bedroom. Sal “was a...
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Review of The Trouble with Heroes
The Trouble with Heroes by Kate MessnerMiddle School Bloomsbury 288 pp.4/25 9781547616398 $17.99e-book ed. 9781547616404 $12.59When seventh grader Finn Connelly is caught on a surveillance camera kicking over a headstone in a local Lake Placid cemetery, little does he know it was the grave of Edna Grace Thomas, “Queen of...
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Review of Everything Interesting Keeps Happening to Ethan Fairmont
Everything Interesting Keeps Happening to Ethan Fairmont [Ethan Fairmont]by Nick BrooksIntermediate, Middle School Union Square 240 pp.11/24 9781454947134 $16.99Paper ed. 9781454947141 $8.99e-book ed. 9781454947158 $9.99Aliens have invaded and plan to leach all of the energy from planet Earth. Even worse, they have kidnapped Ethan Fairmont’s guinea pig, Nugget. In this...
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Review of A Copycat Conundrum
A Copycat Conundrum [Misfits]by Lisa Yee; illus. by Dan SantatIntermediate, Middle School Random 288 pp.1/25 9780593564226 $14.99Library ed. 9780593564233 $17.99e-book ed. 9780593564240 $8.99In the first installment of this series (A Royal Conundrum, rev. 1/24), twelve-year-old Olive Cobin Zang arrived at the Reforming Arts School near San Francisco. Eventually, the lonely...
The 2025 Robin Smith Picture Book Prize
Robin Smith was the best teacher I ever knew. A nationally known writer and children’s book committee member, she was committed to books as the heart of her teaching. She read hundreds of picture books every year in her second-grade classroom and always had a novel going, too — The...
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Review of Keeper Chance and the Conundrum of Chaos
Keeper Chance and the Conundrum of Chaos [Evil Villains International League]by Alex EvanovichMiddle School, High School Simon 336 pp.10/24 9781665960045 $18.99e-book ed. 9781665960069 $10.99“The man known as Chaos had entered Peachmont High School through a back door,” looking to recruit sixteen-year-old junior Keeper Chance for the Evil Villains International League,...
Golden Gate
A new book by Elizabeth Partridge is always a cause for celebration. I taught her Marching for Freedom for many years at my school, and her books about photographer Dorothea Lange (her godmother) are beautiful, full of archival photographs. When I got wind that Golden Gate: Building the Mighty Bridge...
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