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Review of Survivor Tree
Survivor Tree by Marcie Colleen; illus. by Aaron Becker Primary, Intermediate Little, Brown 48 pp. g 8/21 978-0-316-48767-2 $18.99 Colleen uses the cycle of the seasons to tell the remarkable story of New York City’s Survivor Tree. Through lyrical prose, she describes the Callery pear tree as it stood for...
Review of This Very Tree: A Story of 9/11, Resilience, and Regrowth
This Very Tree: A Story of 9/11, Resilience, and Regrowth by Sean Rubin; illus. by the author Primary Holt 48 pp. g 5/21 978-1-250-78850-4 $18.99 This is the story of an extraordinary Callery pear tree, told in the voice of the tree itself. Planted in the 1970s, this early spring...
Review of The Museum of Everything
The Museum of Everything by Lynne Rae Perkins; illus. by the author Primary Greenwillow 40 pp. g 5/21 978-0-06-298630-6 $17.99 In this big, noisy world, a museum, even if it’s only in one’s imagination, is a place of quiet contemplation. With this absorbing and original picture book, Perkins offers a...
Review of Middletown
Middletown by Sarah Moon Middle School Levine Querido 288 pp. g 4/21 978-1-64614-042-8 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-1-64614-107-4 $9.99 Thirteen-year-old Eli and her big sister Anna, seventeen, are used to fending for themselves and covering up their mother’s excessive drinking; they’ve been doing it for years. However, things come to a...
Review of The One Thing You'd Save
The One Thing You’d Save by Linda Sue Park; illus. by Robert Sae-Heng Intermediate, Middle School Clarion 72 pp. g 3/21 978-1-328-51513-1 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-0-358-52601-8 $9.99 Ms. Chang has asked her students to think about what one thing they would save — beyond their families and pets — if...
Review of The Sea-Ringed World: Sacred Stories of the Americas
The Sea-Ringed World: Sacred Stories of the Americas by María García Esperón; illus. by Amanda Mijangos; trans. from Spanish by David Bowles Intermediate, Middle School, High School Levine Querido 240 pp. g 2/21 978-1-64614-015-2 $21.99 In this ambitious and expansive compendium, Esperón collects and presents lore and legend from a...
Review of Chance: Escape from the Holocaust
Chance: Escape from the Holocaust by Uri Shulevitz; illus. by the author Intermediate, Middle School Farrar 336 pp. g 10/20 978-0-374-31371-5 $19.99 e-book ed. 978-0-374-31370-8 $9.99 Shulevitz was just four when the Nazis invaded Poland in September of 1939, forcing his family members to flee their homeland. Thus began nearly...
Review of I Talk like a River
I Talk like a River by Jordan Scott; illus. by Sydney Smith Primary Porter/Holiday 40 pp. 9/20 978-0-8234-4559-2 $18.99 In this lyrical and empowering picture book, Canadian poet Scott tells a story based on his own experiences as a boy who stuttered. In simple, evocative language, he captures the isolation,...
Review of Watch over Me
Watch over Me by Nina LaCour High School Dutton 240 pp. g 9/20 978-0-593-10897-0 $17.99 After four years in foster care, recent high school graduate Mila begins an internship (“I would spend my weekdays teaching in the schoolhouse and my Sundays waking up at five a.m. to run the booth...
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