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Review of Truth Is
Truth Is by Hannah V. SawyerrHigh School Amulet/Abrams 480 pp.9/25 9781419776830 $21.99e-book ed. 9798887074016 $19.79This verse novel’s protagonist, high school senior Truth Bangura, does not make the grades her moralizing best friend does, but she still has goals beyond what her overbearing mother and her guidance counselor believe she’s entitled...
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Review of Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Book of Anansi
Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Book of Anansi by Angie ThomasIntermediate Clarion/HarperCollins 480 pp.9/25 9780063225183 $19.99This second book in a projected trilogy (The Manifestor Prophecy, rev. 5/23) is as energetic as the first. Recently relocated from Jackson, Mississippi, Nic Blake once again must adjust to a new town with...
Review of I Am the Swarm
I Am the Swarm by Hayley Chewins High School Viking 336 pp. 3/25 9780593623862 $19.99 e-book ed. 9780593623879 $10.99 In 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...
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Review of Blood in the Water
Blood in the Water by Tiffany D. JacksonIntermediate, Middle School Scholastic 272 pp.7/25 9781338849912 $18.99e-book ed. 9781338849936 $18.99Twelve-year-old Kaylani can’t understand why her incarcerated father wants her to go to Martha’s Vineyard with family friends so badly. She’d planned to spend her summer at home in Brooklyn studying up on...
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 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...
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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,...
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