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Review of I Am the Swarm
I Am the Swarm by Hayley ChewinsHigh School Viking 336 pp.3/25 9780593623862 $19.99e-book ed. 9780593623879 $10.99In this Cape Town–set verse novel, each woman in the Strand family gains magical abilities when she turns fifteen. As Nell Strand approaches her fifteenth birthday, she is painfully aware of the potential dangers that...
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Review of Beacon of Hope: The Life of Barack Obama
Beacon of Hope: The Life of Barack Obama by Doreen Rappaport; illus. by Tonya EngelPrimary Little, Brown 48 pp.1/25 9780316397834 $19.99President Barack Obama’s path through life has been anything but linear. This picture-book biography in verse relates how “Barry” (as he was known in childhood), who was born to a...
Review of All the Blues in the Sky
All the Blues in the Sky by Renée WatsonMiddle School Bloomsbury 208 pp.2/25 9781547605897 $17.99e-book ed. 9781547605903 $12.59“I didn’t know / best friends could die.” From the very first line, Watson takes a deep dive into the intricacies of grief and healing. On her thirteenth birthday, Sage is looking forward...
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Review of When the Mapou Sings
When the Mapou Sings by Nadine PinedeMiddle School, High School Candlewick 432 pp.12/24 9781536235661 $19.99e-book ed. 9781536240184 $19.99In this historical verse novel, teenage Lucille comes of age against the uneasy backdrop of 1930s Haiti. The American colonizers have removed their troops, and political discussions among Haiti’s new leaders about the...
Review of Boy 2.0
Boy 2.0 by Tracey Baptiste Intermediate, Middle School Algonquin 304 pp. 10/24 9781643753812 $16.99 e-book ed. 9781523529896 $9.99 Win “Coal” Keegan is moving to another foster home; the McKay family seems nice enough, and Coal is relieved that he’s remaining at the same school with his best friend, nicknamed Door....
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Review of Dear Dad: Growing Up with a Parent in Prison—and How We Stayed Connected
Dear Dad: Growing Up with a Parent in Prison—and How We Stayed Connected by Jay Jay Patton with Kiara Valdez; illus. by Markia JenaiIntermediate Graphix/Scholastic 128 pp.9/24 9781546128373 $24.99Paper ed. 9781338893205 $14.99e-book ed. 9781546109952 $14.99In this graphic memoir, brilliant Jay Jay enjoys solving the puzzles and equations her incarcerated father,...
Review of Mama’s Chicken and Dumplings
Mama’s Chicken and Dumplings by Dionna L. Mann Intermediate Ferguson/Holiday 208 pp. 8/24 9780823455553 $17.99 e-book ed. 9780823459261 $10.99 Mann sets this amiable story in 1930s Vinegar Hill, “a thriving African American business and residential community” outside Charlottesville, Virginia. Allie Lewis wants the best for her mama and thinks she...
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Review of Black Star
Black Star [Door of No Return]by Kwame AlexanderIntermediate, Middle School Little, Brown 384 pp.9/24 9780316442596 $17.99e-book ed. 9780316442794 $9.99Continuing the story of a Black family’s trials, from Ghana to the United States, Alexander (The Door of No Return, rev. 9/22) sets this installment in Jim Crow–era Virginia. Charlene “Charley” Cuffey...
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Review of Flying Through Water
Flying Through Water by Mamle Wolo Middle School Little, Brown 288 pp.5/24 9780316703963 $16.99e-book ed. 9780316703956 $9.99Seven years ago, Sena’s mother moved their family from a big city—and an abusive husband—to Tovime, a remote village in Ghana, where Sena’s grandfather, Togbe, resides. A positive male presence, Togbe works the land...
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