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Photos courtesy of Monica de los Reyes. Is there anything better than stories and snacks? Elissa and I were lucky enough to get both when we sat in on author Karina N. González’s bilingual storytime at the Connolly branch of the Boston Public Library last Friday afternoon. The event was...
This Is the Year by Gloria MuñozHigh School Holiday 368 pp.1/25 9780823458363 $18.99e-book ed. 9780823462186 $11.99In this evocative near-future science fiction novel, high school senior Juli is still reeling from the death of her twin sister, Ofe, a year earlier. After a recruitment officer for the Cometa Mission of the...
The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest by Aubrey HartmanIntermediate Little, Brown 320 pp.2/25 9780316575720 $17.99e-book ed. 9780316575744 $9.99Clare the fox lives, so to speak, in Deadwood Forest: “Like Clare, the forest was not quite dead but not quite alive.” He struggles with self-consciousness about his mangled ear and missing eye...
Pilgrim Codex by Vivian Mansour; illus. by Emmanuel Valtierra; trans. from Spanish by Carlos Rodríguez CortezPrimary, Intermediate Em Querido/Levine Querido 48 pp.2/25 9781646145157 $18.99A child lives in Mexico until “one day, my dad heard a bird’s song, a beautiful song that rose up and appeared to say tihui, tihui, tihui:...
Two Worlds / Dos mundos by Edel Rodriguez; illus. by the authorPreschool Abrams Appleseed 32 pp.3/25 9781419764950 $16.99e-book ed. 9781647008390 $15.29This spare bilingual picture book, seemingly inspired by Rodriguez’s (The Mango Tree / La mata de mango, rev. 7/24) personal story of immigrating from the Cuban countryside to an American...
The Hero Twins and the Magic of Song [Tales of the Feathered Serpent] by David Bowles; illus. by Charlene Bowles Middle School Cinco Puntos/Lee & Low 80 pp. 10/24 Paper ed. 9781947627697 $15.95 Spanish ed. 9781947627703 $15.95 This follow-up to Rise of the Halfling King (rev. 11/20) tells the story—again...
On a Wing and a Tear by Cynthia Leitich Smith Middle School Heartdrum/HarperCollins 240 pp. 9/24 9780062870001 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780062870025 $9.99 When Great-Grandfather Bat (an actual bat) calls upon (humans) Ray and Mel to help him travel to a rematch of the legendary Great Ball Game in the Southeast...
The first day of spring has arrived, but up here in New England that doesn’t always mean we’re seeing all the signs of springtime yet. The “lion” phase of March likes to linger. While the sun may be shining longer, the air still nips at your nose a bit if...
The Snips: A Bad Buzz Day by Raúl the Third; illus. by the author; color by Elaine Bay; coloring by Eleonora Bruni; lettering by Rob LeighIntermediate, Middle School LB Ink/Little, Brown 128 pp.1/25 9780316528689 $14.99e-book ed. 9780316576345 $9.99In this wacky and entertaining graphic-novel series starter, readers are welcomed to Scissors...