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Review of We Are Not Alone
We Are Not Alone by Katryn BuryMiddle School Harper/HarperCollins 320 pp.10/24 9780063337411 $19.99e-book ed. 9780063337435 $9.99As Sam Kepler Greyson heads back to school for the first time after going through chemo, he’s still worried about his illness—now in remission—and processing the loss of his best friend, Oscar, who died from...
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Review of Gracie Under the Waves
Gracie Under the Waves by Linda Sue Park; illus. by Maxine VeeIntermediate Allida/HarperCollins 176 pp.9/24 9780063346291 $18.99e-book ed. 9780063346314 $9.99Gracie Kim loves snorkeling and hopes to persuade her parents to spend spring break in the coastal community of Roatán, Honduras. Her younger brother Ben’s unsolicited help keeps introducing wrinkles into...
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Review of Countdown to Yesterday
Countdown to Yesterday by Shirley MarrIntermediate Simon 272 pp.6/24 9781665948517 $17.99e-book ed. 9781665948531 $10.99After his parents unexpectedly announce their divorce, eleven-year-old James decides his new friend Yan’s time machine might give him a chance to go back to a happier past. When James’s mother moves out, he must adapt to...
Review of The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity by Nicholas Day; illus. by Brett Helquist Intermediate, Middle School Random House Studio/Random 288 pp. 9/23 9780593643846 $19.99 Library ed. 9780593643853 $22.99 e-book ed. 9780593643860 $11.99 The Mona Lisa wasn’t the world’s most...
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Review of Vivian Lantz’s Second Chances
Vivian Lantz’s Second Chances by Kathryn OrmsbeeMiddle School Harper/HarperCollins 320 pp.6/23 9780063060043 $19.99e-book ed. 9780063060067 $10.99Vivian Lantz is determined to break her streak of terrible first days of school. She decides on a new style, writes out a plan in the notebook her best friend gave her before moving away,...
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Review of West of the Sea
West of the Sea by Stephanie WillingIntermediate Viking 352 pp.8/23 9780593465578 $18.99e-book ed. 9780593465592 $10.99Haven West doesn’t understand why her mother is always disappearing—either outside or into the bathroom—or why she herself sees prehistoric creatures in the Texas desert that surrounds her home, but no one else can. She’s also...
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Review of The Islands of Elsewhere
The Islands of Elsewhere by Heather FawcettIntermediate Rocky Pond/Penguin 224 pp.6/23 9780593530528 $17.99e-book ed. 9780593530542 $10.99The three Snolly sisters, their infant brother, and their mother are spending the summer at the coastal home of their grandfather, whose dementia is worsening. Artistic sister Hattie, science-y Bee, and costume-loving Plum explore the...
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Review of Half Moon Summer
Half Moon Summer by Elaine VickersIntermediate, Middle School Peachtree 288 pp.6/23 9781682635391 $17.99e-book ed. 9781682635544 $10.99Drew and Mia met as infants—born on the same day in the same hospital, they stopped crying only when nurses put them in the same bassinet—but grew up in different areas of California, meeting again...
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Review of The In-Between
The In-Between by Katie Van HeidrichMiddle School Aladdin/Simon 304 pp.1/23 9781665920124 $18.99e-book ed. 9781665920148 $10.99In this memoir in verse, Van Heidrich recalls the time when her family, whose housing situation had always been precarious, experienced homelessness. Her mother moves thirteen-year-old Katie and her two younger siblings into a hotel, where...
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