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Review of A Summer Without Anna
A Summer Without Anna by Kate Jenks Landry; illus. by Risa HugoPrimary Kids Can 32 pp.6/25 9781525310256 $21.99e-book ed. 9781525313653 $13.99Junie is sent to Nan and Pop’s house for the summer and can come home as soon as older sister Anna recovers from a serious illness. While Anna’s illness is...
Review of Drawing Is…: Your Guide to Scribbled Adventures
Drawing Is…: Your Guide to Scribbled Adventures by Elizabeth Haidle; illus. by the author Primary, Intermediate Tundra 72 pp. 5/25 9781774885031 $19.99 e-book ed. 9781774885048 $11.99 Starting from the out-of-order table of contents inviting readers to “choose your own order of scribbled adventures,” this art history/hands-on exercise book not only...
Review of The Music Inside Us: Yo-Yo Ma & His Gifts to the World
The Music Inside Us: Yo-Yo Ma & His Gifts to the World by James Howe; illus. by Jack Wong Primary Abrams 48 pp. 6/25 9781419755217 $19.99 e-book ed. 9781647003432 $17.09 Readers may not know that Yo-Yo Ma (b. 1955), one of the most recognized cellists of our time and a...
Review of Sakina and the Uninvited Guests
Sakina and the Uninvited Guests by Zahra Marwan; illus. by the authorPrimary Bloomsbury 40 pp.4/25 9781547613427 $18.99e-book ed. 9781547613434 $13.29When a sandstorm makes “the city orange—the sun like a tangerine, the waves like clementine peels,” Sakina and her mother spend the day at a museum. While her mother is moved...
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Review of Please Pay Attention
Please Pay Attention by Jamie SumnerIntermediate, Middle School Atheneum 240 pp.4/25 9781665956079 $17.99e-book ed. 9781665956093 $10.99In a series of entries in verse, sixth grader Bea Coughlin narrates the story of something important she wants us to “please pay attention” to. Bea tells her story slowly, revealing characters and their relationships...
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Review of Joan Mitchell Paints a Symphony: La Grande Vallée Suite
Joan Mitchell Paints a Symphony: La Grande Vallée Suite by Lisa Rogers; illus. by Stacy InnerstPrimary, Intermediate Calkins/Astra 40 pp.2/25 9781662680373 $18.99e-book ed. 9781662680380 $11.99Twentieth-century American painter Joan Mitchell (1925–1992) was inspired by a “verdant valley” in northwest France to create a series of twenty-one gigantic paintings. Standing on a...
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Review of Hilwa’s Gifts
Hilwa’s Gifts by Safa Suleiman; illus. by Anait SemirdzhyanPrimary Candlewick 40 pp.4/25 9781536229424 $18.99Ali visits his grandparents in Palestine, where they grow olive trees on their land. Ali and his seedo (grandfather) have a close bond; Seedo twirls Ali in the air and gives piggyback rides. It’s olive harvesting season,...
Review of The Shape of Lost Things
The Shape of Lost Things by Sarah Everett Middle School Harper/HarperCollins 272 pp. 10/24 9780063256613 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780063256620 $9.99 When Skye was six years old, her parents, both physicists, divorced. She and her brother, Finn, spent alternate weekends with their dad, but he became increasingly obsessed with physics and...
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Review of A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall
A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall by Jasmine WargaIntermediate, Middle School Harper/HarperCollins 224 pp.9/24 9780062956705 $19.99e-book ed. 9780062956729 $9.99Sixth grade is not going well for Rami Ahmed: his friends no longer want anything to do with him, leaving him feeling lonely and invisible. His single mother, a Lebanese immigrant...
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