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Review of Are We There Yet?: The First Road Trip Across the USA
Are We There Yet?: The First Road Trip Across the USA by Stacy McAnulty; illus. by Elizabeth BaddeleyPrimary, Intermediate McElderry 48 pp.3/25 9781665937474 $19.99e-book ed. 9781665937481 $10.99In 1903, when Vermont doctor Horatio Nelson (1872–1955) began his attempt to cross the United States in an automobile he had yet to learn...
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Review of Yasmeen Lari, Green Architect: The True Story of Pakistan’s First Woman Architect
Yasmeen Lari, Green Architect: The True Story of Pakistan’s First Woman Architect by Marzieh Abbas; illus. by Hoda HadadiPrimary Clarion/HarperCollins 40 pp.10/24 9780063285156 $19.99Yasmeen Lari (b. 1941) grew up during the India-Pakistan partition and watched as her parents helped welcome newcomers. As an adult, becoming Pakistan’s first woman architect was...
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Review of Dog Trouble
Dog Trouble by Kristin Varner; illus. by the authorIntermediate, Middle School First Second 304 pp.10/24 9781250225900 $22.99Paper ed. 9781250225917 $14.99e-book ed. 9781250406781 $9.99After an uncharacteristic lapse in judgment with his friends (they skateboarded in an abandoned warehouse and broke the windows), middle schooler Ash must spend his summer with his...
Review of Wings of an Eagle: The Gold Medal Dreams of Billy Mills
Wings of an Eagle: The Gold Medal Dreams of Billy Mills by Billy Mills and Donna Janell Bowman; illus. by S. D. Nelson Primary, Intermediate Little, Brown 48 pp. 7/24 9780316373487 $19.99 Born on the Oglala Lakota Nation’s Pine Ridge Reservation and orphaned at a young age, a grieving Billy...
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Review of Spirit Sleuths: How Magicians and Detectives Exposed the Ghost Hoaxes
Spirit Sleuths: How Magicians and Detectives Exposed the Ghost Hoaxes by Gail JarrowMiddle School, High School Calkins/Astra 176 pp.9/24 9781662680236 $24.99e-book ed. 9781662680243 $14.99Narrative nonfiction veteran Jarrow (recently American Murderer, rev. 9/22) digs into the history of the greedy hucksters and charlatans who defrauded naive and grieving people for decades,...
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Review of Radar and the Raft: A True Story About a Scientific Marvel, the Lives It Saved, and the World It Changed
Radar and the Raft: A True Story About a Scientific Marvel, the Lives It Saved, and the World It Changed by Jeff LantosIntermediate, Middle School Charlesbridge 192 pp.9/24 9781623543457 $18.99e-book ed. 9781632893109 $8.99At the onset of World War II, German U-boats (submarines) mercilessly sank the military and civilian ships of...
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Review of Almost Underwear: How a Piece of Cloth Traveled from Kitty Hawk to the Moon and Mars
Almost Underwear: How a Piece of Cloth Traveled from Kitty Hawk to the Moon and Mars by Jonathan Roth; illus. by the authorPrimary, Intermediate Ottaviano/Little, Brown 40 pp.8/24 9780316525541 $18.99A small scrap of unbleached muslin (typically used for underwear in the early 1900s) traveled to the moon and back with...
Review of The Astrochimps: America’s First Astronauts
The Astrochimps: America’s First Astronauts by Dawn CusickIntermediate, Middle School Chicago Review 216 pp.2/24 9781641608954 $19.99e-book ed. 9781641608978 $12.99Chimpanzees were “America’s first astronauts,” but what did their missions entail, and how did their voyages help NASA send humans into space? Cusick’s well-researched look at the primates’ training and flights provides...
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Review of Bunny and Clyde
Bunny and Clyde by Megan McDonald; illus. by Scott NashPrimary Candlewick 128 pp.3/24 9781536228731 $16.99e-book ed. 9781536237429 $16.99Best friends Bunny and Clyde learn that it can be hard to be bad in this early chapter book. The rabbit and chipmunk duo are tired of being good and decide to put...
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