Kristine Techavanich
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Review of The Battle of the Beasts
The Battle of the Beasts [Monkey King and the World of Myths]by Maple Lam; illus. by the authorIntermediate Putnam 256 pp.8/25 9780593524688 $24.99Paper ed. 9780593524695 $13.99e-book ed. 9780593524725 $8.99In this fast-paced follow-up to graphic novel The Monster and the Maze (rev. 3/24), plucky super-beast Sun Wukong, the monster-hunting Monkey King,...
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Review of The House Next Door
The House Next Door by Ellen OhIntermediate, Middle School Harper/HarperCollins 192 pp.9/25 9780062875822 $18.99It’s summer in Bethesda, Maryland, when a Korean American family moves into the long-abandoned house next door. Twelve-year-old Rory Parker knows that lurking behind the doors of the newly renovated home are frightful ghosts and hordes of...
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Review of Fresh Start
Fresh Start by Gale Galligan; illus. by the author; color by K Czap Middle School Graphix/Scholastic 288 pp. 1/25 9781338045864 $24.99 Paper ed. 9781338045840 $14.99 e-book ed. 9781338045871 $14.99 In this engaging graphic novel, Ollie Herisson (whose father is white and American and whose mother is Thai) has always made...
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Review of How to Draw a Secret
How to Draw a Secret by Cindy Chang; illus. by the authorIntermediate, Middle School Allida/HarperCollins 272 pp.2/25 9780358659662 $24.99Paper ed. 9780358659655 $15.99e-book ed. 9780358659556 $10.99Chang’s fictionalized graphic memoir delves into the complexities of a family harboring a secret: Cindy’s father moved back to Taiwan four years ago, leaving her, her...
Review of Uprooted: A Memoir About What Happens When Your Family Moves Back
Uprooted: A Memoir About What Happens When Your Family Moves Back by Ruth Chan; illus. by the author Middle School Roaring Brook 288 pp. 9/24 9781250855336 $22.99 Paper ed. 9781250855343 $14.99 In a graphic memoir set in 1993, thirteen-year-old Chinese Canadian Ruth is apprehensive about her family’s upcoming move from...
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Review of Born Naughty: My Childhood in China
Born Naughty: My Childhood in China by Jin Wang and Tony Johnston; illus. by Anisi Baigude Primary, Intermediate Schwartz/Random 112 pp. 5/24 9780593563618 $16.99 Library ed. 9780593563625 $19.99 e-book ed. 9780593563632 $9.99 Wang tells of her early life sharing a tiny mud house in Non Ba Zi, a remote village...
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Review of Continental Drifter
Continental Drifter by Kathy MacLeod; illus. by the authorIntermediate First Second 224 pp.4/24 9781250813732 $22.99Paper ed. 9781250813749 $14.99e-book ed. 9781250375841 $9.99This introspective graphic memoir explores bicultural identity and the path toward self-acceptance. Like many students at her international school in Bangkok, Thailand, eleven-year-old Kathy is “luk khrueng,” or “half child.”...
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Review of Sunny Parker Is Here to Stay
Sunny Parker Is Here to Stay by Margaret FinneganIntermediate Atheneum 288 pp.4/24 9781665930086 $17.99e-book ed. 9781665930109 $10.99Eleven-year-old Sunny Parker lives with her father, the manager and handyman of Del Mar Garden Apartments, an affordable housing complex. She had anticipated that the summer before middle school would be boring but is...
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Review of Maybe It’s a Sign
Maybe It’s a Sign by E. L. ShenMiddle School Farrar 240 pp.1/24 9780374390778 $17.99e-book ed. 9780374390785 $10.99Freya June Sun, a seventh grader grappling with grief eight months after her father’s death, clings to Chinese superstitions for connection. The superstitions, passed down by her father, frequently disrupt her reality, making a...
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