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Review of The Bletchley Riddle

The Bletchley Riddle by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin Middle School, High School    Viking    400 pp. 10/24    9780593527542    $18.99 e-book ed.  9780593527566    $10.99 It’s the summer of 1940 in this collaboration between Sepetys (whose historical fiction for older readers includes, recently, I Must Betray You, rev. 5/22) and Sheinkin (primarily...
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Review of Tig

Tig by Heather SmithIntermediate, Middle School    Tundra    160 pp.9/24    9780735267497    $17.99e-book ed.  9780735267503    $10.99Eleven-year-old Tig has been abandoned by her mother and has lived for four months on her own, with no money, no food, and no electricity. Now Uncle Scott and his partner, Manny, are at the police station...

Review of Still Sal

Still Sal by Kevin Henkes; illus. by the authorPrimary    Greenwillow    256 pp.10/24    9780063389625    $18.99e-book ed.  9780063389649    $9.99Sal 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 person who had a...
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Review of Kareem Between

Kareem Between by Shifa Saltagi SafadiMiddle School    Putnam    336 pp.9/24    9780593699263    $18.99e-book ed.  9780593699270    $10.99Seventh grader Kareem dreams of becoming the first Syrian American NFL player. He hopes to make the middle school football team as quarterback—not likely since the coach’s son, Austin, is up for that position, though Austin...
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Review of Jupiter Rising

Jupiter Rising by Gary D. SchmidtMiddle School    Clarion/HarperCollins    208 pp.8/24    9780358659648    $18.99e-book ed.  9780358659549    $9.99In this companion to Orbiting Jupiter (rev. 11/15), eighth grader Jackson Hurd is mourning the loss of Joseph, his “foster brother, sort of,” and cherishes his role as brother to Joseph’s now-orphaned daughter. Jack adores three-year-old...
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Review of Ruin Road

Ruin Road by Lamar GilesMiddle School, High School    Scholastic    368 pp.9/24    9781338894134    $19.99Paper ed.  9781546146971    $12.99e-book ed.  9781338894141    $12.99Kincade Webster, a Black star wide receiver for the mostly white Neeson Preparatory Academy in Virginia, has ambitions of attending The Ohio State University and going on to the NFL. He puts...

The Ship in the Window

I’m a big fan of Matthew Cordell’s work. I was on the 2018 Caldecott committee that chose Wolf in the Snow, and I selected Evergreen last year for the Robin Smith Picture Book Prize. So, what do I like about Cordell’s latest outing, The Ship in the Window written by...

Finding Things

Adrienne Pettinelli captured the heart of Kevin Henkes’s work in her Horn Book review of his picture book The World and Everything in It (May/June 2023): “Henkes’s strength is in the poetry of the everyday and finding the profound in ordinary moments.” Finding Things, written by Henkes and illustrated by...
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Review of Breaking into Sunlight

Breaking into Sunlight by John CochranMiddle School    Algonquin    304 pp.6/24    9781523527298    $17.99e-book ed.  9781523529049    $9.99Seventh grader Reese Buck has never told his best friends, Tony and Ryan, about his father’s drug addiction problems; he doesn’t want to be ostracized or seen as “that kid everyone felt sorry for.” When Reese...
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