Dear Medusa by Olivia A. ColeHigh School Labyrinth Road/Random 384 pp.3/23 9780593485736 $18.99e-book ed. 9780593485750 $10.99For troubled sixteen-year-old Alicia, the past year has been one of betrayal (she was cut out of her best friend’s life “like a tumor”), parental divorce and dysfunction, and social isolation and slut-shaming. Sexual assault...
The Train Home by Dan-ah Kim; illus. by the authorPrimary Greenwillow 40 pp.4/23 9780063076914 $19.99An enchanting look at a child’s quest for belonging. Nari is a quiet, dreamy sort of girl, and at times her bustling, multigenerational Asian American household is a bit too raucous for her liking. As she...
Rabbit, Duck, and Big Bear by Nadine Brun-Cosme; illus. by Olivier TallecPrimary Random House Studio/Random 40 pp.2/23 9780593486986 $18.99Library ed. 9780593486993 $21.99e-book ed. 9780593487006 $10.99Three besties—Rabbit, Duck, and Big Bear—are always together, frolicking and having fun in their forest home throughout the seasons. While they are keen to explore, as...
World Made of Glass by Ami PolonskyIntermediate, Middle School Little, Brown 288 pp.1/23 9780316462044 $16.99e-book ed. 9780316462259 $9.99It’s 1987, and twelve-year-old Iris Cohen is feeling extremely fragile. In the past year, her father, an NYU professor, has moved to an upstairs unit in their Greenwich Village apartment building and begun...
The Three Billy Goats Gruff retold by Mac Barnett; illus. by Jon Klassen Preschool, Primary Orchard/Scholastic 48 pp. 10/22 9781338673845 $18.99 Frequent collaborators Barnett and Klassen serve up a delectable rendition of the oft-retold folktale. The bare-bones narrative “clip clops” along with abundant humor and plenty of verbal delights, repetition,...
The Lost Year by Katherine MarshIntermediate, Middle School Roaring Brook 368 pp.1/23 9781250313607 $17.99e-book ed. 9781250313614 $10.99Marsh’s affecting historical novel, inspired by her own family’s story, describes the social and political backdrop of the Holodomor, a famine that killed millions of Ukrainians in the 1930s and was covered up by...
Berliners by Vesper Stamper; illus. by the author Middle School, High School Knopf 320 pp. g 10/22 978-0-593-42836-8 $21.99 Library ed. 978-0-593-42837-5 $24.99 e-book ed. 978-0-593-42838-2 $10.99 An engrossing look at the emerging new world order after World War II, told through the experiences of one...
Yellow Dog Blues by Alice Faye Duncan; illus. by Chris Raschka Primary Eerdmans 32 pp. g 9/22 978-0-8028-5553-4 $18.99 This book about a lost dog is also a musical and cultural journey along the Mississippi Blues Trail. Duncan’s (Just like a Mama, rev. 3/20) freewheeling narrative...
Tumble by Celia C. Pérez Intermediate, Middle School Kokila/Penguin 368 pp. g 8/22 978-0-593-32517-9 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-593-32519-3 $10.99 Spanish paper ed. 978-1-64473-592-3 $12.95 Twelve-year-old Adela Ramírez has a loving family, a robust middle-school life, and an awesome best friend in her small New Mexico town, known for its love...