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Review of Reasons to Hate Me
Reasons to Hate Me by Susan Metallo High School Candlewick 400 pp. 9/25 9781536240351 $18.99 High school senior Jess finds herself a pariah when her best friend Chloe’s boyfriend, Noah, sends a school-wide text claiming that she tried “to have sex with me.” Now Jess and Chloe aren’t speaking, and...
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Review of Secrets of the Blue Hand Girls
Secrets of the Blue Hand Girls by Rowana MillerHigh School Sourcebooks Fire 368 pp.10/25 Paper ed. 9781464254543 $12.99Heathers meets Daughters of Eve in this gritty mystery debut. High school senior Kay has never fit in at Davison, an elite girls’ school on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. She’s a...
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Review of Butterfly Heart
Butterfly Heart by Moa Backe Åstot; trans. from Swedish by Agnes BrooméMiddle School, High School Levine/Levine Querido 184 pp.10/25 9781646145751 $19.99A Swedish teenager copes with the loss of her grandfather by exploring her indigenous Sámi heritage in this translated work from 2024 Printz Honor author Åstot (for Fire from the...
Review of Hick: The Trailblazing Journalist Who Captured Eleanor Roosevelt’s Heart
Hick: The Trailblazing Journalist Who Captured Eleanor Roosevelt’s Heart by Sarah Miller Middle School, High School Random House Studio/Random 384 pp. 5/25 9780593649091 $20.99 Library ed. 9780593649107 $23.99 e-book ed. 9780593649114 $12.99 Miller’s (Hanged, rev. 11/22) compelling biography charts the historic path famed journalist Lorena “Hick” Hickok (1893–1968) took from...
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Review of This Place Kills Me
This Place Kills Me by Mariko Tamaki; illus. by Nicole GouxHigh School Abrams Fanfare 272 pp.8/25 9781419768460 $26.99Paper ed. 9781419768453 $19.99e-book ed. 9798887070445 $17.99Bespectacled comics lover Abby Kita is having a hard time fitting in at Wilberton, a snooty girls’ boarding school. So when popular Elizabeth Woodward, the only person...
Review of Death at Morning House
Death at Morning House by Maureen Johnson High School HarperTeen 384 pp. 8/24 9780063255951 $19.99 e-book ed. 9780063255975 $10.99 Johnson’s first standalone mystery since the Stevie Bell universe (Truly Devious, rev. 1/18, and others) introduces readers to Marlowe Wexler, whose moniker “makes it sound…like there’s a bartender who knows my...
Review of The Brightwood Code
The Brightwood Code by Monica Hesse High School Little, Brown 336 pp. 5/24 9780316045650 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780316045711 $10.99 In 1918 Washington, DC, eighteen-year-old Edda St. James is working as a switchboard operator for the Bell telephone company while living in her aunt’s boarding house. Though she is grateful for...
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Review of Ash’s Cabin
Ash’s Cabin by Jen Wang; illus. by the authorMiddle School, High School First Second 320 pp.8/24 9781250754059 $25.99Paper ed. 9781250754066 $17.99Fifteen-year-old self-dubbed Ash is a passionate environmentalist who is contending with their gender identity. The last person Ash felt connected to was Grandpa Edwin, a recluse who spent his final...
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Review of Amil and the After
Amil and the After by Veera Hiranandani; illus. by Prashant MirandaIntermediate, Middle School Kokila/Penguin 272 pp.1/24 9780525555063 $17.99e-book ed. 9780525555070 $10.99In this companion to Newbery Honor Book The Night Diary (rev. 7/18), Nisha’s twin brother, Amil, resumes the story. Everything was supposed to get better after their family survived the...
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