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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...
Review of The Insiders
The Insiders by Mark Oshiro Intermediate, Middle School Harper/HarperCollins 384 pp. g 9/21 978-0-06-300810-6 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-300812-0 $8.99 Héctor Muñoz’s life is upended when his family relocates from San Francisco to the Sacramento suburbs. He enters his new middle school with high hopes of finding his people in the...
Review of Both Sides Now
Both Sides Now by Peyton Thomas High School Dial 304 pp. g 8/21 978-0-593-32281-9 $17.99 “Brilliant” debate team star Finch is a young trans man who is months away from transition surgery. The high school senior’s parents struggle financially, which makes debating success and the potential scholarship especially important to...
Review of The Passing Playbook
The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons High School Dial 304 pp. g 6/21 978-1-9848-1540-8 $17.99 Spencer Harris begins sophomore year at a new school in Ohio, hoping for a fresh start after having had to transfer because of “the Incident” at his previous school: Spencer is trans, and he was...
Field Notes: Pandemic Diary: Bilingual Virtual Programming
Children’s literature has the unique ability to inspire a lifelong love of reading for children and their families. One of the books that shaped my own understanding of growing up biracial, as a Honduran American, was Arroz con leche: canciones y ritmos populares de América Latina / Rice with Milk:...
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