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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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