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Review of Tumble
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...
Review of The Greatest Song of All: How Isaac Stern United the World to Save Carnegie Hall
The Greatest Song of All: How Isaac Stern United the World to Save Carnegie Hall by Megan Hoyt; illus. by Katie HickeyPrimary, Intermediate Quill Tree/HarperCollins 40 pp. g7/22 978-0-06-304527-9 $18.99This picture-book biography tells the story of virtuoso violinist Isaac Stern, with an emphasis on his commitment to preserving the...
Review of The World Belonged to Us
The World Belonged to Us by Jacqueline Woodson; illus. by Leo EspinosaPrimary Paulsen/Penguin 32 pp. g5/22 978-0-399-54549-8 $18.99e-book ed. 978-0-399-54550-4 $10.99Spanish ed. 978-0-593-53019-1 $18.99This lyrical paean to unstructured play does not wax nostalgic or hark back to a simpler time. Rather, Woodson sets out to capture (and brilliantly succeeds in...
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Review of Gibberish
Gibberish by Young Vo; illus. by the authorPrimary Levine Querido 40 pp. g2/22 978-1-64614-110-4 $17.99Dat, the young Asian protagonist of this involving picture book, has traveled far to reach his new country and is about to start his first day of school. His mother warns, “When people speak it will...
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Review of This Golden State
This Golden State by Marit WeisenbergHigh School Flatiron 400 pp. g3/22 978-1-250-78627-2 $18.99e-book ed. 978-1-250-78626-5 $10.99Poppy, seventeen, and her younger sister, Emma, have grown up on the run. Their parents, though loving, are fugitives from justice who use fake identities to settle in small towns all around the country and...
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Review of Family of Liars
Family of Liars by E. LockhartHigh School Delacorte 320 pp. g5/22 978-0-593-48585-9 $19.99Library ed. 978-0-593-48586-6 $22.99e-book ed. 978-0-593-48587-3 $10.99This formidable prequel to We Were Liars (rev. 5/14), focusing on the wealthy Sinclair family a generation before that novel’s events, opens with a harsh truth, and a spoiler. Johnny, one of...
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Review of The Chandler Legacies
The Chandler Legacies by Abdi NazemianHigh School Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 336 pp. g2/22 978-0-06-303932-2 $17.99e-book ed. 978-0-06-303934-6 $9.99Chandler Academy is a posh Connecticut boarding school with a hallowed reputation, but with a thinly veiled culture of hazing, bullying, and homophobia and zero interest in changing long-established “traditions.” The story, which...
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Review of Rima’s Rebellion: Courage in a Time of Tyranny
Rima’s Rebellion: Courage in a Time of Tyranny by Margarita EngleMiddle School, High School Atheneum 208 pp. g2/22 978-1-5344-8693-5 $18.99e-book ed. 978-1-5344-8695-9 $10.99This historical novel in verse, set mainly in 1920s Cuba, is an engrossing look at the protracted fight for women’s suffrage there. The story is told through the...
Review of Pauli Murray: The Life of a Pioneering Feminist and Civil Rights Activist
Pauli Murray: The Life of a Pioneering Feminist and Civil Rights Activist by Rosita Stevens-Holsey and Terry Catasús Jennings High School Yellow Jacket 288 pp. g 2/22 978-1-4998-1251-0 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-1-4998-1252-7 $9.99 The remarkable life of Black activist, attorney, and Episcopal priest Pauli Murray (1910–1985) is presented in an...
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