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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 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...
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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 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 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 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...
Review of My Nest of Silence
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...
Why the Hell Haven't More Beginning Readers Won the Caldecott Medal?
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...
Review of American Murderer: The Parasite That Haunted the South
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...
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