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Review of Fireblooms
Fireblooms by Alexandra VillasanteHigh School Paulsen/Penguin 304 pp.9/25 9780525514053 $19.99Seventeen-year-old Sebas moves to New Gault, California, to care for his estranged mother, who has cancer. Student ambassador Lu is tasked with getting him onboard with TECH, the company that runs their high school. TECH provides tools for school and free...
Review of How to Say Goodbye in Cuban
How to Say Goodbye in Cuban by Daniel Miyares; illus. by the authorMiddle School Schwartz/Random 240 pp.9/25 9780593568293 $21.99Paper ed. 9780593568309 $13.99Library ed. 9780593568316 $24.99In this fictional graphic novel based on Miyares’s father’s childhood, Carlos is growing up in the Cuban countryside in 1956. He loves spending time with his...
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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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