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Review of The Leaving Room
The Leaving Room by Amber McBrideMiddle School, High School Feiwel 224 pp.10/25 9781250908087 $19.99Gospel, this verse novel’s protagonist, is a Keeper in the Leaving Room, a space between life and death where she guides recently deceased children through their final transition. Each Leaver transforms her room with small changes: a...
Review of (S)Kin
(S)Kin by Ibi ZoboiHigh School Versify/HarperCollins 400 pp.2/25 9780062888877 $19.99e-book ed. 9780062888891 $10.99In this verse novel with a basis in Caribbean folklore, fifteen-year-old Marisol and her mother, Lourdes, have recently emigrated from the Caribbean to Brooklyn. The two are soucouyant, shapeshifting “monsters” who shed their skin during the new moon...
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Review of Abeni and the Kingdom of Gold
Abeni and the Kingdom of Gold by P. Djèlí ClarkIntermediate, Middle School Starscape/Tor 368 pp.4/25 9781250825858 $19.99e-book ed. 9781250825865 $11.99In this compelling sequel to Abeni’s Song (rev. 9/23), Abeni and her companions continue their quest to find the elder spirits who might protect Asha (the first book’s benevolent witch who...
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Review of Carnival Chaos
Carnival Chaos [Moko Magic]by Tracey BaptisteIntermediate Freedom Fire/Disney 400 pp.8/24 9781368074377 $17.99It’s the summer before sixth grade, and Misty and her mother have recently moved from Trinidad to live with family in Brooklyn. Despite Misty’s outgoing and determined nature, she feels like an outsider, attempting to adapt to her new...
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Review of Kingdom of Dust
Kingdom of Dust by Lisa StringfellowIntermediate, Middle School Quill Tree/HarperCollins 224 pp.8/24 9780063043480 $18.99e-book ed. 9780063043503 $9.99In this West African–inspired fantasy, the kingdom of Kun has always flourished under the rule of a child of Oala, the goddess of creation, but now it languishes under the tyranny of King Udo,...
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Review of Jax Freeman and the Phantom Shriek
Jax Freeman and the Phantom Shriek [Jax Freeman]by Kwame MbaliaIntermediate Freedom Fire/Disney-Hyperion 480 pp.10/24 9781368064736 $17.99e-book ed. 978136864798 $10.99After his alleged participation in a brawl, twelve-year-old Jackson Freeman is sent to Chicago to live with an uncle and grandmother he barely knows. Awkward and shy, Jax expects to confront the...
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Review of The Maid and the Crocodile
The Maid and the Crocodile by Jordan IfuekoMiddle School, High School Amulet/Abrams 304 pp.8/24 9781419764356 $19.99e-book ed. 9781647008185 $17.99After seventeen-year-old Small Sade ages out of her orphanage, her primary goal is to discover a home where she truly belongs. However, her physical appearance, marked by vitiligo and a maimed foot...
Review of Abeni’s Song
Abeni’s Song by P. Djèlí ClarkIntermediate, Middle School Starscape/Tor 336 pp.7/23 9781250825827 $19.99Paper ed. 9781250825841 $8.99e-book ed. 9781250825834 $11.99On Abeni’s twelfth birthday, a witch enters her village to give a grave warning: an evil is coming, and it’s too late to run. The adults prepare for an impossible battle as...
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Review of Conjure Island
Conjure Island by Eden RoyceIntermediate Walden Pond/HarperCollins 320 pp.6/23 9780062899613 $19.99e-book ed. 9780062899620 $10.99Because her father is in the Air Force, eleven-year-old Delphinia Baker moves to a new state every year, making it difficult to form lasting friendships. Del is grateful for the one constant in her life: her grandmother....
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