Jennifer Hubert Swan
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Review of A Scatter of Light
A Scatter of Light by Malinda Lo High School Dutton 336 pp. g10/22 978-0-525-55528-5 $18.99e-book ed. 978-0-525-55529-2 $10.99 The summer before heading to MIT, in 2013, eighteen-year-old Aria finds herself banished to her artist grandmother’s remote Northern California home after an unfortunate revenge porn incident....
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Review of We Weren’t Looking to Be Found
We Weren’t Looking to Be Found by Stephanie KuehnHigh School Hyperion 320 pp. g6/22 978-1-368-06410-1 $17.99Dani is a sixteen-year-old debutante whose “life revolved around Black cotillion and Black society and Black choir,” until she started to rebel by drinking and using drugs. Camila is a Latina teen dancer who...
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Review of The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin
The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin by Kip Wilson High School Versify/HarperCollins 416 pp. g 3/22 978-0-358-44890-7 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-0-358-44776-4 $9.99 In 1932 Berlin, orphaned eighteen-year-old Hilde is seeking work and a purpose. She finds both (perhaps with implausible ease) at Café Lila, a gay nightclub reminiscent of Cabaret’s...
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Review of Cold
Cold by Mariko TamakiHigh School Roaring Brook 240 pp. g2/22 978-1-62672-273-6 $18.99Teens Georgia and Todd would seem to have little in common, especially given that Todd is, well, dead. But when Todd’s nude, frozen body is discovered in a local park, Georgia is intrigued by the mystery. She interrogates those...
Review of Big Apple Diaries
Big Apple Diaries by Alyssa Bermudez; illus. by the author Intermediate, Middle School Roaring Brook 256 pp. g 8/21 978-1-250-77428-6 $14.99 Bermudez mined her middle-school diaries to create this appealing debut graphic memoir set in NYC just before and after 9/11. Twelve-year-old Alyssa splits her time between her Puerto Rican...
Review of Switch
Switch by A.S. King High School Dutton 240 pp. g 5/21 978-0-525-55551-3 $17.99 “It is, and has been, June 23, 2020, for nine months now.” Global time has inexplicably paused. The U.S. government has created a new school curriculum called “Solution Time” that instructs students “to solve the world’s time...
Review of Ophie's Ghosts
Ophie’s Ghosts by Justina Ireland Intermediate, Middle School Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 336 pp. g 5/21 978-0-06-291589-4 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-291585-6 $9.99 “When she was twelve, Ophelia Harrison saw her first ghost” — that of her father. Having been lynched for voting as a Black man in 1920s Georgia, he appears...
Review of Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo High School Dutton 416 pp. g 1/21 978-0-525-55525-4 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-0-525-55526-1 $10.99 High school senior Lily Hu lives in San Francisco’s Chinatown in 1954 with her medical professional parents; she behaves obediently and dreams of working at the Jet Propulsion...
Review of Where We Go from Here
Where We Go from Here by Lucas Rocha; trans. from Brazilian Portuguese by Larissa Helena High School PUSH/Scholastic 288 pp. g 6/20 978-1-338-55624-7 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-1-338-63375-7 $11.99 In this translated novel from Brazilian debut author Rocha, three young gay men (two protagonists are eighteen, one is twenty-one) living in...
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