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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 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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Review of On the Block: Stories of Home
On the Block: Stories of Home edited by Ellen OhIntermediate, Middle School Crown 208 pp.10/24 9780593648445 $17.99Library ed. 9780593648452 $20.99e-book ed. 9780593648469 $10.99Composed of twelve stories written by a dozen different authors, this We Need Diverse Books anthology is organized by apartment number in a New York City building. Each...
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Review of Safe Harbor
Safe Harbor by Padma VenkatramanIntermediate, Middle School Paulsen/Penguin 176 pp.1/25 9780593112502 $17.99e-book ed. 9780593112519 $10.99Geetha and her mother, who lives with depression, move from Chennai, India, to Rhode Island, leaving behind the rest of their family and settling in an apartment near Narragansett Bay. Geetha is lonely at school and...
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Review of Very Bad at Math
Very Bad at Math by Hope Larson; illus. by the authorMiddle School HarperAlley/HarperCollins 240 pp.1/25 9780063311299 $24.99Paper ed. 9780063311282 $15.99e-book ed. 9780063311305 $10.99Verity “Very” Nelson is very good at many things: she has just won her third term as student council president and is called “the gold standard of middle...
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Review of The Big Splash
The Big Splash [Julia on the Go!]by Angela Ahn; illus. by Julie KimPrimary, Intermediate Tundra 176 pp.2/25 9781774882078 $12.99e-book ed. 9781774882085 $7.99Picking up right where Swimming into Trouble (rev. 3/24) left off, the story finds Julia Nam, having recovered from her ear infection, back in the water, preparing for a...
Review of Every Story Ever Told
Every Story Ever Told by Ami Polonsky Middle School Little, Brown 256 pp. 10/24 9780316570978 $16.99 e-book ed. 9780316571005 $9.99 In this sequel to World Made of Glass (rev. 3/23), set a generation later, seventh grader Stevie (daughter of Iris Cohen, the first book’s protagonist) is attending her New Jersey...
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Review of Step into My Shoes
Step into My Shoes by Alkisti Halikia; illus. by Fotini Tikkou; trans. from Greek by Konstantine MatsoukasPrimary Lantana 32 pp.10/24 9781915244925 $18.99This picture book invites readers to practice compassion by trying on others’ shoes—both literally and figuratively. On her walk home from school in her Paris suburb, Matou passes a...
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Review of The Shape of Lost Things
The Shape of Lost Things by Sarah EverettMiddle School Harper/HarperCollins 272 pp.10/24 9780063256613 $18.99e-book ed. 9780063256620 $9.99When 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 would forget to feed...
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