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Review of Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir
Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir by Pedro Martín; illus. by the author Intermediate, Middle School Dial 320 pp. 8/23 9780593462287 $24.99 Paper ed. 9780593462294 $14.99 e-book ed. 9780593462300 $9.99 Martín’s humorous and heartfelt memoir recounts a momentous 1977 road trip with his “big Mexican American family.” Apá and Amá gather the...
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Review of Letters in Charcoal
Letters in Charcoal by Irene Vasco; illus. by Juan Palomino; trans. from Spanish by Lawrence SchimelPrimary Lantana 32 pp.9/23 9781915244512 $18.99An unnamed narrator relates how she learned to read as a child in her coastal Afro-Colombian pueblo. In Palenque: “Letters were in kitchens, on tables, and right in front of...
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Review of The Do-Over
The Do-Over by Rodrigo Vargas; illus. by Coni YovaninizIntermediate, Middle School Clarion/HarperCollins 224 pp.5/23 9780358394044 $24.99Paper ed. 9780358394051 $15.99e-book ed. 9780358394334 $10.99In this upbeat graphic novel, Maru is trying to adjust to her family’s recent move from California to Ohio. Her papá, a barbershop owner, and the rest of her...
Review of Pura's Cuentos: How Pura Belpré Reshaped Libraries with Her Stories
Pura’s Cuentos: How Pura Belpré Reshaped Libraries with Her Stories by Annette Bay Pimentel; illus. by Magaly Morales Primary Abrams 40 pp. g 9/21 978-1-4197-4941-4 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-1-64700-498-9 $15.54 “Pura Belpré always knew that many stories worth telling aren’t in books” is the lingering message of this picture-book biography....
Review of Miosotis Flores Never Forgets
Miosotis Flores Never Forgets by Hilda Eunice Burgos Intermediate, Middle School Tu/Lee & Low 304 pp. g 10/21 978-1-64379-065-7 $18.95 Achievement runs in twelve-year-old Miosotis’s Dominican family: her father is a physics professor, her brother Jacinto is a track star and straight-A student, and her sister Amarilis attends a prestigious...
Review of Bright Star
Bright Star by Yuyi Morales; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Porter/Holiday 40 pp. g 9/21 978-0-8234-4328-4 $18.99 Spanish ed. 978-0-8234-4784-8 $18.99 Morales’s (Dreamers, rev. 9/18) latest sensitive and evocative picture book opens with a wide-eyed whitetail fawn curled up in a creosote bush, guilelessly peeking up at the reader....
Review of My Two Border Towns
My Two Border Towns by David Bowles; illus. by Erika Meza Primary Kokila/Penguin 40 pp. g 8/21 978-0-593-11104-8 $17.99 Spanish ed. 978-0-593-32507-0 $17.99 A sleepy boy is nudged awake by his father for a routine Saturday trip, heading across the U.S.–Mexico border to “el Otro Lado.” As they reach the...
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