Race Against Death: The Greatest POW Rescue of World War II by Deborah HopkinsonIntermediate, Middle School Focus/Scholastic 320 pp.3/23 9781338746167 $19.99Hopkinson (We Must Not Forget: Holocaust Stories of Survival and Resistance, rev. 3/21) delivers another highly engaging nonfiction account of World War II. After giving some background information on the...
I’ll Take Everything You Have by James KliseHigh School Algonquin 288 pp.2/23 9781616208585 $17.99e-book ed. 9781643753652 $11.99Intent on saving his family farm during the Great Depression, sixteen-year-old Joe arrives in Chicago to work and send money home. Thanks to the cousin he’s staying with, he has two jobs lined up....
Unbreakable: The Spies Who Cracked the Nazis’ Secret Code by Rebecca E. F. BaroneIntermediate, Middle School Holt 272 pp.10/22 9781250814203 $19.99e-book ed. 9781250814210 $10.99Barone (Race to the Bottom of the Earth, rev. 5/21) delivers another impressive feat of narrative nonfiction storytelling. In the years following World War I, Germany developed...
Iceberg by Jennifer A. NielsenIntermediate Scholastic 352 pp.3/23 9781338795028 $17.99Ever since Hazel’s father’s death, it has been hard for the family to make ends meet. When her aunt, who lives in America and works in a garment factory, invites her to live and work with her, Hazel accepts the opportunity...
I Am the Walrus [N.O.A.H. Files]by Neal Shusterman and Eric ElfmanMiddle School, High School Little, Brown 400 pp.4/23 9780759555242 $17.99e-book ed. 9780759555259 $9.99Fourteen-year-old Noah Prime is late for school and collides with classmate Sahara on his way in, although he can’t remember how it happened. But that’s not the only...
Doomed: Sacco, Vanzetti, and the End of the American Dream by John Florio and Ouisie ShapiroMiddle School, High School Roaring Brook 208 pp.1/23 9781250621931 $19.99e-book ed. 9781250621948 $10.99On April 15, 1920, in South Braintree, Massachusetts (as a prologue describes), two men were shot and killed as they were transporting payroll...
My Nest of Silence by Matt Faulkner; illus. by the author Intermediate, Middle School Atheneum 384 pp. g 10/22 978-1-5344-7762-9 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5344-7764-3 $10.99 Like many Japanese Americans, the Asai family has been sent to Manzanar during World War II. Mari has always enjoyed a...
Today on Calling Caldecott, a conversation between Patrick Gall and Jonathan Hunt about early readers and the Caldecott Award. (This is an entry in the Why-the-Hell Calling Caldecott conversations, conducted in previous years between Elisa Gall and Jonathan Hunt. Earlier posts include discussions about the Caldecott and photography; board books; the Newbery Award; "didactic intent"; and holiday...
American Murderer: The Parasite That Haunted the South [Medical Fiascoes] by Gail Jarrow Middle School, High School Calkins/Astra 160 pp. g 9/22 978-1-68437-815-9 $24.99 e-book ed. 978-1-63592-829-7 $14.99 Zoologist Charles Stiles discovered a new species of hookworm: Necator americanus , the titular “American murderer,” which affected a...