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Review of A Monstrous Bedtime
A Monstrous Bedtime by Kerilynn Wilson; illus. by the authorPreschool Greenwillow 32 pp.8/25 9780063335615 $19.99A child has a simple bedtime routine with their caregivers: “A cup of water, a fan whirring gently, a story, and a song.” When it doesn’t work for the friendly, not-sleepy, octopus-like monster under the bed,...
Review of Graciela in the Abyss
Graciela in the Abyss by Meg Medina; illus. by Anna Balbusso and Elena Balbusso Intermediate, Middle School Candlewick 256 pp. 7/25 9781536219456 $18.99 e-book ed. 9781536244960 $18.99 When Graciela fell to her death into the sea as a girl, she became, after a one-hundred-year sleep, a sea spirit. Now she’s...
Review of Sea Change
Sea Change by Susan Fletcher High School Amulet/Abrams 352 pp. 6/25 9781419773921 $19.99 e-book ed. 9798887072982 $17.99 Turtle, fifteen, is a Mer; she has both lungs and gills from a not-quite-legal “gen-mod” experiment. Gen-modding to cure disease is par for the course in this near-future world, but “boutique” and “transhuman”...
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Review of El Niño
El Niño by Pam Muñoz Ryan; illus. by Joe CepedaIntermediate, Middle School Scholastic 256 pp.5/25 9781338068559 $18.99e-book ed. 9781338068610 $18.99Spanish ed. 9781546176473 $8.99Thirteen-year-old Kai is anxious to continue the family legacy on his new elite swim team. Since his superstar older sister, Cali, disappeared while surfing two years before, swimming...
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...
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