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Review of Loudmouth: Emma Goldman vs. America (A Love Story)

Loudmouth: Emma Goldman vs. America (A Love Story) by Deborah Heiligman High School    Farrar    336 pp. 9/25    9781250823076    $21.99 e-book ed.  9781250823083    $11.99 Heiligman’s newest work of nonfiction touches on a long list of hot-button contemporary issues: due process, free speech, gender equity, economic inequality, pacifism, prison reform, reproductive freedom,...
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Review of Goalkeeper

Goalkeeper by Edward BloorMiddle School    Clarion/HarperCollins    192 pp.10/25    9780063428324    $19.99e-book ed.  9780063428348    $10.99Twenty-eight years after Tangerine (rev. 7/97) was published, Bloor returns with a sequel to his classic debut that picks up after the first book ends. Having been expelled from public school, Paul Fisher is finishing up seventh grade...

Review of A World Without Summer: A Volcano Erupts, a Creature Awakens, and the Sun Goes Out

A World Without Summer: A Volcano Erupts, a Creature Awakens, and the Sun Goes Out by Nicholas Day; illus. by Yas ImamuraIntermediate, Middle School    Random House Studio/Random    304 pp.9/25    9780593643877    $19.99On April 10, 1815, on the small Indonesian island of Sumbawa, the volcano Tambora erupted with such explosive force that...
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Review of Salmon Run: An Epic Journey to the Ocean and Back

Salmon Run: An Epic Journey to the Ocean and Back by Annie Chen; illus. by the authorPrimary    Red Comet    40 pp.11/25    9781636551654    $19.99“On a crisp autumn day, a Pacific salmon is born.” From an embryo inside an egg to the just-hatched alevin stage to a fry, the salmon’s early life...

Why the Hell Is Everyone Sleeping on Flowcharts?: Informational Picture Books Up Close

Today on Calling Caldecott, a conversation between Elisa Gall and Jonathan Hunt about informational picture books and the Caldecott Award. (This is an entry in their "why-the-hell" Calling Caldecott series. Previous posts include discussions about the Caldecott and holiday books; photography; board books; the Newbery Award; "didactic intent"; folklore; and...

Review of Imogen: The Life and Work of Imogen Cunningham

Imogen: The Life and Work of Imogen Cunningham by Elizabeth Partridge; illus. by Yuko ShimizuPrimary, Intermediate    Viking    40 pp.8/25    9781984835185    $18.99e-book ed.  9781984835208    $10.99Imogen Cunningham (1883–1976) was born into a large, loving family in the Pacific Northwest at the tail end of the nineteenth century. As a young girl, she...
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Review of Trapped in the Tar Pit: How Paleontologists Unearthed a City’s Prehistoric Past

Trapped in the Tar Pit: How Paleontologists Unearthed a City’s Prehistoric Past by Jessica Stremer; illus. by Alexander VidalPrimary    Beach Lane/Simon    40 pp.8/25    9781665953177    $19.99e-book ed.  9781665953184    $10.99The fascinating story of the La Brea Tar Pits gets a wonderful introduction in Stremer’s (Plight of the Pelican, rev. 3/25) latest offering....

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 Fleming Middle School, High School    Schwartz/Random    368 pp. 4/25    9780593480069    $19.99 Library ed.  9780593480076    $22.99 e-book ed.  9780593480083    $11.99 On Saturday, November 18, 1978, more than nine hundred members of Jim Jones’s Peoples Temple died at...
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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....
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