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Review of The Waiting Place: When Home Is Lost and a New One Not Yet Found
The Waiting Place: When Home Is Lost and a New One Not Yet Found by Dina Nayeri; photos by Anna Bosch MiralpeixIntermediate, Middle School Candlewick 64 pp. g5/22 978-1-5362-1362-1 $18.99e-book ed. 978-1-5362-1854-1 $18.99“When home is lost and a new one not yet found, children are sent to the Waiting Place.”...
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Review of Tug: A Log Boom’s Journey
Tug: A Log Boom’s Journey by Scot Ritchie; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Groundwood 40 pp. g3/22 978-1-77306-177-1 $18.99e-book ed. 978-1-77306-430-7 $16.99A child and father spend the day together on a tugboat, guiding a log boom to a Vancouver sawmill. After the boom (“a collection of floating logs”) is assembled,...
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Review of This Last Adventure
This Last Adventure by Ryan DaltonIntermediate, Middle School Carolrhoda 304 pp. g2/22 978-1-5415-9928-4 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-7284-5122-0 $9.99Thirteen-year-old Archie Reese and his grandfather have a morning routine, always “the same conversation, to get the day started right.” But one morning, Grandpa doesn’t recognize Archie. After Grandpa is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease,...
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Review of Alice Waters Cooks Up a Food Revolution
Alice Waters Cooks Up a Food Revolution by Diane Stanley; illus. by Jessie HartlandPrimary Wiseman/Simon 48 pp. g1/22 978-1-5344-6140-6 $18.99e-book ed. 978-1-5344-6141-3 $10.99Through Chez Panisse, her renowned Berkeley, California, restaurant (which celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 2021), chef Alice Waters began a “food revolution [that] changed the way people everywhere—from...
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Review of All-Star: How Larry Doby Smashed the Color Barrier in Baseball
All-Star: How Larry Doby Smashed the Color Barrier in Baseball by Audrey Vernick; illus. by Cannaday ChapmanPrimary Clarion/HarperCollins 40 pp. g1/22 978-1-328-48297-6 $17.99e-book ed. 978-0-358-46820-2 $12.99In 1947, eleven and a half weeks after Jackie Robinson became the first Black player in Major League Baseball, Larry Doby became the second, and...
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Review of In Honor of Broken Things
In Honor of Broken Things by Paul AcamporaMiddle School Dial 208 pp. g3/22 978-1-9848-1664-1 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-9848-1665-8 $10.99Navigating the chaos and social groups of adolescent life can be difficult; in this novel, three friends help one another despite feeling “broken” themselves. Fourteen-year-old Oscar, football star at West Beacon Junior/Senior High...
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Review of Falling Short
Falling Short by Ernesto CisnerosIntermediate, Middle School Quill Tree/HarperCollins 304 pp. g3/22 978-0-06-288172-4 $16.99e-book ed. 978-0-06-288174-8 $10.99The first day of sixth grade at Mendez Middle School is coming up, and Isaac Castillo’s Amá expects him to become “más responsable”: “no more forgetting my lunch, no more missing homework, no more...
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Review of Worser
Worser by Jennifer ZieglerMiddle School Ferguson/Holiday 256 pp. g3/22 978-0-8234-4956-9 $17.99e-book ed. 978-0-8234-5283-5 $10.99When his (widowed) mother, a professor of rhetoric, has a stroke and can no longer speak, social misfit twelve-year-old William Wyatt Orser, nicknamed Worser, feels “utterly alone. Cold. Helpless.” Obsessed with words, the boy carries in his...
Field Notes: Teaching Flying Lessons & Other Stories
In a foreword to the paperback edition of the groundbreaking anthology Flying Lessons & Other Stories — edited by Ellen Oh, first published in 2017 in partnership with We Need Diverse Books, and dedicated to the late Walter Dean Myers — Christopher Myers writes, “Imagine…this book you are holding, Flying...
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