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Review of 83 Days in Mariupol: A War Diary
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...
Review of Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Germany
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...
Review of Race Against Death: The Greatest POW Rescue of World War II
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...
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Review of The One and Only Ruby
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...
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Review of I’ll Take Everything You Have
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....
Review of Unbreakable: The Spies Who Cracked the Nazis’ Secret Code
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...
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Review of I Am the Walrus
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...
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Review of Iceberg
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...
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Review of Doomed: Sacco, Vanzetti, and the End of the American Dream
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...
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