83 Days in Mariupol: A War Diary by Don Brown; illus. by the authorHigh School Clarion/HarperCollins 128 pp.5/23 9780063311565 $22.99e-book ed. 9780063311589 $10.99Here’s a rare chronicle of a contemporary, ongoing war. This comic-format “war diary” isn’t told from the viewpoint of any one person, although individual perspectives are plentifully represented...
Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Germany by Steve SheinkinMiddle School, High School Roaring Brook 256 pp.8/23 9781250265722 $19.99e-book ed. 9781250265739 $11.99In his latest masterful work of narrative nonfiction, Sheinkin’s (Most Dangerous, rev. 9/15; Fallout, rev. 11/21) tale of suspense is tinged with the physical...
Race Against Death: The Greatest POW Rescue of World War II by Deborah Hopkinson Intermediate, Middle School Focus/Scholastic 320 pp. 3/23 9781338746167 $19.99 Hopkinson (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...
The One and Only Ruby by Katherine Applegate; illus. by Patricia CastelaoIntermediate Harper/HarperCollins 240 pp.5/23 9780063080089 $19.99e-book ed. 9780063080102 $12.99After The One and Only Ivan (rev. 1/12) and The One and Only Bob (rev. 7/20), it’s now young elephant Ruby’s turn to tell her story. Having relocated to a new...
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...
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...
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...
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...