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Review of Only If You Dare: 13 Stories of Darkness and Doom
Only If You Dare: 13 Stories of Darkness and Doom by Josh Allen; illus. by Sarah J. Coleman Middle School Holiday 208 pp. g 8/21 978-0-8234-4906-4 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-0-8234-5066-4 $9.99 Thirteen illustrated short stories range from eerie to totally terrifying. Each tale stands completely alone, but a strong sense...
Review of Long Lost
Long Lost by Jacqueline West Intermediate Greenwillow 288 pp. g 5/21 978-0-06-269175-0 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-269177-4 $8.99 Eleven-year-old Fiona blames her older sister Arden for their family’s move to the “quaint” (fictional) Massachusetts town of Lost Lake. Arden, thirteen, is a successful figure skater, and Fiona feels that her parents...
Review of Burn
Burn by Patrick Ness High School Quill Tree/HarperCollins 371 pp. g 6/20 978-0-06-286949-4 $18.99 It’s 1957, and Sarah Dewhurst’s father has hired a dragon to work on their farm despite his prejudices against them. That’s not really big news; in this alternate universe, humankind has maintained an uneasy peace with...
Review of They Threw Us Away
They Threw Us Away [The Teddies Saga] by Daniel Kraus; illus. by Rovina Cai Intermediate Holt 256 pp. g 9/20 978-1-250-22440-8 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-1-250-22441-5 $9.99 Buddy the teddy bear wakes up in a garbage dump: the toy store that’s been his home has thrown him away. Together with a...
Review of The Book of Fatal Errors
The Book of Fatal Errors by Dashka Slater Intermediate Farrar 322 pp. g 7/20 978-0-374-30119-4 $16.99 Slater (winner of a Boston Globe–Horn Book Nonfiction honor for The 57 Bus, rev. 1/18) here presents an entertaining, fantastical summertime story. Twelve-year-old Rufus’s grandfather lives at Feylawn, an estate overtaken by nature and,...
Review of Wicked as You Wish
Wicked as You Wish by Rin Chupeco High School Sourcebooks Fire 371 pp. g 3/20 978-1-4926-7266-1 $17.99 Tala and Alexei are refugees from the magical kingdom of Avalon, living in the troublingly conservative Royal States of America. Alexei, the crown prince of Avalon, can use magic, while Tala has the...
Review of There Will Come a Darkness
There Will Come a Darkness [Age of Darkness] by Katy Rose Pool High School Holt 485 pp. 9/19 978-1-250-21175-0 $19.99 A prophecy foretells that an “age of darkness” will come down upon the land unless a new prophet can prevent it. This time of reckoning throws the story’s diverse cast...
Review of The Dark Lord Clementine
The Dark Lord Clementine by Sarah Jean Horwitz Intermediate, Middle School Algonquin 329 pp. g 10/19 978-1-61620-894-3 $17.95 Clementine’s father, the Dark Lord Elithor Morcerous, has been cursed by the Whittle Witch and is unable to fulfill his dastardly duties. Clementine takes it upon herself to run Castle Brack, with...
Review of Moxie audiobook
Moxieby Jennifer Mathieu; read by Suzy JacksonHigh School Recorded Books Rev. 11/178 CDs 8.75 hrs. 978-1-5019-6805-1 $87.75Vivian Carter, frustrated with the systemic sexism of her small-town Texas high school, secretly distributes a zine proclaiming, “Moxie girls fight back!” Though she’s shy in real life, Viv draws...
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