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Review of Sunrise on the Reaping

Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne CollinsMiddle School, High School    Scholastic    400 pp.3/25    9781546171461    $27.99e-book ed.  9781546171478    $27.99“The upside of being born on reaping day is that you can sleep late on your birthday. It’s pretty much downhill from there.” This prequel to the original trilogy (The Hunger Games, rev....

Review of Smash, Crash, Topple, Roll!: The Inventive Rube Goldberg—A Life in Comics, Contraptions, and Six Simple Machines

Smash, Crash, Topple, Roll!: The Inventive Rube Goldberg—A Life in Comics, Contraptions, and Six Simple Machines by Catherine Thimmesh; illus. by Shanda McCloskey Primary, Intermediate    Chronicle    56 pp. 5/25    9781452144221    $19.99 At the start of this peculiar book, we are shown the six simple machines: lever, wheel and axle, inclined...

Review of The Eclipse of 1919: How Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity Changed Our World

The Eclipse of 1919: How Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity Changed Our World by Emily Arnold McCully; illus. by the author Primary, Intermediate    Ottaviano/Little, Brown    40 pp. 7/25    9780316475525    $18.99 This picture book serves as a good introduction to the concepts of scientific theory, methodology, and history involved in the...

Review of Fight AIDS!: How Activism, Art, and Protest Changed the Course of a Deadly Epidemic and Reshaped a Nation

Fight AIDS!: How Activism, Art, and Protest Changed the Course of a Deadly Epidemic and Reshaped a Nation by Michael G. Long High School    Norton    288 pp. 6/25    9781324053538    $19.99 In the early 1980s—following a time of political galvanization in the 1960s around sexual liberation and efforts to destigmatize gay...
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Review of All Better Now

All Better Now by Neal ShustermanHigh School    Simon    528 pp.2/25    9781534432758    $21.99e-book ed.  9781534432772    $12.99In the near future, the Crown Royale virus is wreaking havoc on the world. One in every twenty-five people who contract it will die from it, but those who recover experience a blissful, euphoric state. This...

Review of Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown

Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown by Candace FlemingMiddle School, High School    Schwartz/Random    368 pp.4/25    9780593480069    $19.99Library ed.  9780593480076    $22.99e-book ed.  9780593480083    $11.99On Saturday, November 18, 1978, more than nine hundred members of Jim Jones’s Peoples Temple died at Jonestown in Guyana. Though the...
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Review of Extra Large

Extra Large by Tyler Page; illus. by the authorMiddle School    First Second    208 pp.3/25    9781250851574    $22.99Paper ed.  9781250851567    $14.99e-book ed.  9781250422767    $9.99In Button Pusher (rev. 5/22), Tyler gained weight as a side effect of taking Ritalin for his ADHD. In this companion graphic memoir, Page explores the intersection of body...

Review of When the World Tips Over

When the World Tips Over by Jandy Nelson High School    Dial    528 pp. 9/24    9780525429098    $21.99 e-book ed.  9780698195042    $10.99 Nelson (Printz Award winner for I’ll Give You the Sun, rev. 11/14) begins with definitions of a fantasia—one of which is “a literary work composed of a mixture of different...

Review of Virus Hunters: How Science Protects People When Outbreaks and Pandemics Strike

Virus Hunters: How Science Protects People When Outbreaks and Pandemics Strike by Amy Cherrix Intermediate, Middle School    Harper/HarperCollins    336 pp. 9/24    9780063069541    $19.99 e-book ed.  9780063069565    $9.99 Epidemiologists are scientists who study the causes, patterns, and control of diseases in groups of people. Positioning epidemiologists as forensic detectives, Cherrix examines...
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