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Stories and snacks

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...
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Review of This Is the Year

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...
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Review of The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest

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...
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Review of Pilgrim Codex

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:...
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Review of Two Worlds / Dos mundos

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...

Review of The Hero Twins and the Magic of Song

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...

Review of On a Wing and a Tear

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...

Blustery days

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...
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Review of The Snips: A Bad Buzz Day

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...
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