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Review of The Mine Wars: The Bloody Fight for Workers’ Rights in the West Virginia Coal Fields

The Mine Wars: The Bloody Fight for Workers’ Rights in the West Virginia Coal Fields by Steve WatkinsMiddle School    Bloomsbury    272 pp.5/24    9781547612185    $19.99e-book ed.  9781547612192    $13.99West Virginia, the Mountain State, is also historically known for both coal mining and Appalachian poverty. Watkins explores the nexus between them in this...
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Review of Mountain of Fire: The Eruption and Survivors of Mount St. Helens

Mountain of Fire: The Eruption and Survivors of Mount St. Helens by Rebecca E. F. BaroneIntermediate, Middle School    Holt    192 pp.5/24    9781250881656    $18.99e-book ed.  9781250881649    $11.99After months of unusual seismic activity, Mount St. Helens erupted on May 18, 1980. The catastrophic results included a thick cloud of ash, debris, devastating...
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Review of Break to You

Break to You by Neal Shusterman, Debra Young, and Michelle KnowldenHigh School    Quill Tree/HarperCollins    432 pp.7/24    9780062875761    $19.99e-book ed.  9780062875785    $10.99Adriana Zarahn was in the wrong place at the wrong time, helping the wrong friend, and now she’s at Compass, a juvenile detention facility, for seven months. The facility is...

Review of Life After Whale: The Amazing Ecosystem of a Whale Fall

Life After Whale: The Amazing Ecosystem of a Whale Fall by Lynn Brunelle; illus. by Jason ChinPrimary, Intermediate    Porter/Holiday    48 pp.6/24    9780823452286    $18.99e-book ed.  9780823459254    $11.99As a ninety-year-old blue whale dies, one story ends and another begins. Her body provides food for other creatures before it gradually descends to the...
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Review of The One and Only Family

The One and Only Family by Katherine Applegate; illus. by Patricia Castelao Intermediate    Harper/HarperCollins    272 pp.4/24    9780063221123    $19.99e-book ed.  9780063221147    $10.99After Bob and Ruby have taken turns narrating the past couple of books, it’s only fitting that Ivan (The One and Only Ivan, rev. 1/12) returns as the narrator for...
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Review of The Kid

The Kid by Jeff Schill Intermediate, Middle School    Charlesbridge Moves    240 pp.5/24    9781623543648    $17.99It’s 1881 in Destiny, Colorado. Fourteen-year-old Henry Upton and his three younger brothers have just buried their father. Their mother passed away several years earlier, and now they must manage the homestead by themselves. Henry comes up...
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Review of Icarus

Icarus by K. AncrumHigh School    HarperTeen    400 pp.3/24    9780063285781    $19.99e-book ed.  9780063285804    $8.99In this loose retelling of the Greek myth, Icarus Gallagher is a seventeen-year-old art thief. He breaks into Mr. Black’s home, steals his art, and replaces it with forgeries by his father, Angus—largely as revenge for Mr. Black’s...
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Review of Code Name Kingfisher

Code Name Kingfisher by Liz KesslerMiddle School    Aladdin/Simon    336 pp.5/24    9781665929738    $18.99e-book ed.  9781665929752    $10.99Thirteen-year-old Liv lives with her parents in England. When she’s tasked with a family history assignment for school, she decides to investigate her ninety-two-year-old grandmother. While helping Bubbe move into an assisted living facility, Liv discovers...
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Review of A for Effort

A for Effort by Jarad Greene; illus. by the authorMiddle School    HarperAlley/HarperCollins    224 pp.3/24    9780063032880    $24.99Paper ed.  9780063032873    $15.99e-book ed.  9780063032897    $10.99This sequel to A-Okay (rev. 11/21) finds Jay, who previously attended a magnet school across town, starting high school without any friends, a situation made worse by his inherent...
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