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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...
Review of Fighting Words
Fighting Words by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley Intermediate, Middle School Dial 269 pp. g 8/20 978-1-9848-1568-2 $17.99 Ten-year-old Delicious Nevaeh Roberts, a.k.a. Della, doesn’t take “snow” from anyone (“Suki says whenever I want to use a bad word, I can say snow”). She’s learned to be tough from her fiercely protective...
Review of I Am Here Now
I Am Here Now by Barbara Bottner High School Imprint/Macmillan 347 pp. g 8/20 978-1-250-20769-2 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-250-20770-8 $9.99 Fourteen-year-old Maisie characterizes her 1960s coming-of-age in the Bronx as “one of those fairy tales / where the witch eats the child.” And for good reason. Her perfume mogul dad...
Review of Clap When You Land
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo High School Quill Tree/HarperCollins 422 pp. g 5/20 978-0-06-288276-9 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-288278-3 $11.99 In this sharp and compelling verse novel (a 2020 Boston Globe–Horn Book honoree), sixteen-year-old Camino Rios lives in the Dominican Republic and dreams of medical school. Sixteen-year-old Yahaira Rios...
Review of Again Again
Again Again by E. Lockhart High School Delacorte 293 pp. g 6/20 978-0-385-74479-9 $18.99 Library ed. 978-0-375-99185-1 $21.99 e-book ed. 978-0-385-39139-9 $10.99 In this novel set in the same world as The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks (rev. 5/08), Lockhart explores the intersection between love and the multiverse. The summer...
Review of Kent State
Kent State by Deborah Wiles Middle School, High School Scholastic 132 pp. g 4/20 978-1-338-35628-1 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-338-35630-4 $10.99 On May 4, 1970, four students were killed by the National Guard on the campus of Kent State University during a protest against the Vietnam War and the bombing of...
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