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Review of Secrets We Tell the Sea
Secrets We Tell the Sea by Martha Riva Palacio Obón; trans. from Spanish by Lourdes HeuerIntermediate, Middle School Bloomsbury 144 pp.10/23 9781547608164 $17.99e-book ed. 9781547608171 $12.59Courageous and resilient ten-year-old Sofía is taken to live with her grandmother in Bahía, by the sea. Over the ensuing weeks and months, she struggles...
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Review of Frontera
Frontera by Julio Anta; illus. by Jacoby SalcedoMiddle School, High School HarperAlley/HarperCollins 240 pp.7/23 9780063054950 $26.99Paper ed. 9780063054943 $18.99e-book ed. 9780063054967 $11.99In this graphic novel with supernatural elements, high-achieving teenager Mateo has grown up in Phoenix, Arizona, and only learned recently that his family was undocumented. After the family’s deportation...
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Review of Lalo Lespérance Never Forgot
Lalo Lespérance Never Forgot by Phillippe DiederichIntermediate, Middle School Dutton 256 pp.9/23 9780593354285 $17.99e-book ed. 9780593354308 $10.99In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, middle schooler Lalo Lespérance is doing his best to adapt to virtual school and make social connections in his Florida apartment complex. Lalo struggles with severe...
Review of ¡Ay, Mija!: My Bilingual Summer in Mexico
¡Ay, Mija!: My Bilingual Summer in Mexico by Christine Suggs; illus. by the author Middle School, High School Little, Brown 336 pp. 4/23 9780316591966 $24.99 Paper ed. 9780316591928 $17.99 e-book ed. 9780316591942 $9.99 This engaging graphic memoir depicts Suggs’s formative experiences visiting family members in Mexico City and their rancho...
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Review of Then Everything Happens at Once
Then Everything Happens at Once by M-E GirardHigh School HarperTeen 432 pp.1/23 9780063206687 $18.99e-book ed. 9780063206700 $12.99A teenage girl’s identity crisis coincides with the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in Girard’s (Girl Mans Up, rev. 11/16) latest novel, set on the outskirts of Toronto. Baylee is a thoughtful yet highly...
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Review of Invisible
Invisible by Christina Diaz Gonzalez ; illus. by Gabriela Epstein ; color by Lark Pien Middle School Graphix/Scholastic 208 pp. g8/22 978-1-338-19455-5 $24.99Paper ed. 978-1-338-19454-8 $12.99e-book ed. 978-1-338-19456-2 $7.99 Gonzalez and Epstein’s compelling graphic novel opens with five students from Conrad Middle School sitting in...
Five Questions for Lizzo's Library of Congress Hosts
In addition to being a GRAMMY, NAACP Image Award, and MTV Award-winning songwriter and recording artist, Lizzo trained as a classical flutist. Since she hit the global music scene, her fans have been treated to flute cameos during Lizzo shows and occasional flute-related entertainment on her social feeds. Her visit...
Review of Burn Down, Rise Up
Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent TiradoHigh School Sourcebooks Fire 352 pp. g5/22 978-1-7282-4600-0 $18.99In this horror novel grounded in a real-world setting, sixteen-year-old Raquel’s life is upended when her friend disappears—part of a pattern of unexplained disappearances—and her mother is hospitalized due to a mysterious illness. Raquel is...
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Review of Ophelia After All
Ophelia After All by Racquel MarieHigh School Feiwel 352 pp. g2/22 978-1-250-79730-8 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-250-79729-2 $10.99All is well in high-achieving, botany-obsessed, high-school senior Ophelia Rojas’s world until she gets caught up in friend drama over prom and recognizes her romantic interest in a new female friend. True to her...
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