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Review of How to Reach the Moon

How to Reach the Moon by Nicolás Schuff; illus. by Ana Sender; trans. from Spanish by Lawrence SchimelPrimary    Amazon Crossing Kids    40 pp.4/25    9781662522963    $18.99How can one visit the moon without leaving our Earth? This question, reminiscent of a riddle or folktale, is answered in a surprising and loving fashion...
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Review of Peachaloo in Bloom

Peachaloo in Bloom by Chris Raschka; illus. by the authorIntermediate    Porter/Holiday    304 pp.7/25    9780823458554    $18.99Twelve-year-old Peachaloo Piccolozampa is staying with her beloved grandmother Omi in small-town Pennsylvania for the summer, as usual. This year their idyllic life, characterized by early-morning swims in the local pond, is threatened by villainous real...
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Review of When Sally O’Malley Discovered the Sea

When Sally O’Malley Discovered the Sea by Karen CushmanIntermediate, Middle School    Knopf    240 pp.3/25    9780593650578    $17.99Library ed.  9780593650585    $20.99e-book ed.  9780593650592    $10.99Sally, aged thirteen, is a plucky heroine in the best tradition of the orphan narrative. It’s 1894 in central Oregon, and Sally has had it with being demeaned, so...
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Review of Death at the Lighthouse

Death at the Lighthouse [Montgomery Bonbon]by Alasdair Beckett-King; illus. by Claire PowellIntermediate    Candlewick    304 pp.2/25    9781536241648    $18.99Paper ed.  9781536241655    $9.99e-book ed.  9781536241808    $9.99Bonnie Montgomery, the protagonist of this romp, is an ordinary ten-year-old English girl with best-friend problems, a fear of heights, and a kindly grandfather. However, in her alter...
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Review of Bad Badger

Bad Badger by Maryrose Wood; illus. by Giulia GhiginiIntermediate    Union Square    181 pp.2/25    9781454953456    $18.99Paper ed.  9781454953463    $9.99e-book ed.  9781454953470    $8.99Septimus is a badger undergoing an identity crisis. Unlike forest badgers, he doesn’t live in a den but instead in a cozy, tidy seaside cottage where he enjoys opera and...
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Review of The Teeny-Weeny Unicorn’s Great Big Wish

The Teeny-Weeny Unicorn’s Great Big Wish by Shawn Harris; illus. by the authorPrimary    Knopf    40 pp.3/25    9780593571910    $18.99Library ed.  9780593571927    $21.99e-book ed.  9780593571934    $8.99The teeny-weeny unicorn is back, just as small, just as smudgy, and just as pink as he was in his original appearance in The Teeny-Weeny Unicorn (rev....
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Review of Candle Island

Candle Island by Lauren WolkIntermediate, Middle School    Dutton    352 pp.4/25    9780593698549    $18.99e-book ed.  9780593698556    $10.99After the accidental death of Lucretia’s father, she and her mother move to an island off the coast of Maine, where they buy a small farm. Their first summer there is full of drama—tensions between locals...
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Review of A Wolf Called Fire

A Wolf Called Fire [Voice of the Wilderness]by Rosanne Parry; illus. by Mónica ArmiñoIntermediate    Greenwillow    256 pp.2/25    9780063415133    $18.99e-book ed.  9780063415164    $9.99This companion volume to A Wolf Called Wander gives Warm, the beloved wolf brother of Swift, his own voice and tale. Warm is small and gentle, a watcher by...
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Review of Scattergood

Scattergood by H. M. BouwmanIntermediate, Middle School    Porter/Holiday    320 pp.1/25    9780823457755    $18.99e-book ed.  9780823462308    $11.99It’s June 1941 in West Branch, Iowa, and twelve-year-old Peggy’s summer becomes marked by two secrets. The first is that she’s fallen for Gunther, who is handsome, older (sixteen), and, most importantly, from away. A German...
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