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Review of If Looks Could Kill
If Looks Could Kill by Julie Berry High School Simon 448 pp. 9/25 9781534470811 $21.99 e-book ed. 9781534470835 $10.99 This expansive historical novel with Medusa-inspired fantasy elements features Jack the Ripper, Salvation Army missionaries, and new-made Gorgons in New York’s Bowery, 1888. With two principal viewpoints, Berry alternates between the...
Review of The Forest of a Thousand Eyes
The Forest of a Thousand Eyes by Frances Hardinge; illus. by Emily Gravett Intermediate, Middle School Amulet/Abrams 128 pp. 8/25 9781419777783 $19.99 e-book ed. 9798887074511 $17.99 Hardinge and Gravett pair up again (Island of Whispers, rev. 7/24) in a short, atmospheric tale told through Hardinge’s skillful fairy-tale prose and Gravett’s...
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Review of Tyger
Tyger by SF Said; illus. by Dave McKeanIntermediate, Middle School Penguin Workshop 304 pp.7/25 9780593887240 $18.99Paper ed. 9780593887257 $9.99e-book ed. 9780593887264 $9.99Said’s dystopian fantasy engages imagery and themes from the work of nineteenth-century poet and mystic William Blake. In an alternate London where the British Empire never declined and slavery...
Review of Beasts
Beasts by Ingvild Bjerkeland; trans. from Norwegian by Rosie Hedger Middle School, High School Em Querido/Levine Querido 128 pp. 4/25 9781646145133 $17.99 Beasts have invaded thirteen-year-old Abdi’s homeland. With their hoofed feet, long arms, slender hands, and razor-sharp claws, the beasts pursue and kill every living creature. The government has...
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Review of The Vanished Kingdom: The War of the Maps
The Vanished Kingdom: The War of the Maps by Jonathan AuxierIntermediate, Middle School Amulet/Abrams 513 pp.4/25 9781419753947 $19.99e-book ed. 9781647002701 $17.99Peter Nimble and Sophie Quire (Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard and Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes) are on a rescue mission: Hazelport, Peter’s home, is in trouble. But...
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Review of Among Ghosts
Among Ghosts by Rachel HartmanMiddle School, High School Random 400 pp.6/25 9780593813720 $20.99Library ed. 9780593813751 $23.99e-book ed. 9780593813744 $10.99In this novel set in the world of Hartman’s Seraphina volumes (most recently In the Serpent’s Wake, rev. 5/22), soggy St. Muckle’s is a “peasants’ paradise”: after staying a year and a...
Review of Everything Is Poison
Everything Is Poison by Joy McCulloughHigh School Dutton 304 pp.1/25 9780593855874 $19.99e-book ed. 9780593855898 $10.99In 1650s Rome, Carmela’s mother, Giulia Tofana, runs an apothecary. At sixteen, Carmela is finally allowed to begin training to become an apothecary herself. She learns what goes into healing remedies—familiar herbs such as lavender, rosemary,...
Review of The Lost Ones
The Lost Ones [Moonwind Mysteries]by Johan Rundberg; trans. from Swedish by Eva ApelqvistMiddle School Amazon Crossing Kids 222 pp.1/25 9781662525940 $17.99Paper ed. 9781662525957 $9.99Rundberg’s pair of 1880s detectives—twelve-year-old orphan Mika from Stockholm’s Public Children’s Home and police detective Valdemar Hoff—investigate the disappearance of a wealthy family’s teenage daughter, Beatrice. “Children...
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Review of The Legendary Scarlett & Browne
The Legendary Scarlett & Browne by Jonathan StroudMiddle School, High School Knopf 448 pp.3/25 9780593707364 $17.99e-book ed. 9780593707388 $10.99Stroud has much to wrap up in this third (seemingly final) volume of the exploits of fearsome Scarlett McCain and disheveled, telepathically gifted Albert Browne. In the dystopic, hostile landscape of postapocalyptic...
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