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Review of Stella & Marigold: Mermaids and Mix-Ups
Stella & Marigold: Mermaids and Mix-Ups by Annie Barrows; illus. by Sophie Blackall Primary, Intermediate Chronicle 116 pp. 9/25 9781797219714 $15.99 Big sister Stella and little sister Marigold make a welcome return to the page with their own brand of sibling affection. The humor, energy, and poignancy of the first...
Review of The Grimmelings
The Grimmelings by Rachael KingIntermediate, Middle School McElderry 288 pp.10/25 9781665984225 $18.99Ella lives with her mother, younger sister Fiona, and Scottish grandmother Grizzly on a farm in New Zealand, where they run a horse-trekking business. An unfamiliar black horse appears in the first sentence of this story, and from that...
Review of The Winter of the Dollhouse
The Winter of the Dollhouse by Laura Amy Schlitz Intermediate, Middle School Candlewick 400 pp. 9/25 9781536236088 $18.99 e-book ed. 9781536247589 $18.99 Tiph is a child who is pulled in many directions. She loves her younger half siblings but is fed up with the chaos of a house with babies....
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Review of A Glimmer of Change
A Glimmer of Change by Elle McNicollMiddle School Random 208 pp.10/25 9780593902462 $17.99Almost-fourteen-year-old Keedie, an autistic girl, is loyal, creative, funny, rebellious, arrogant, a passionate defender of the underdog, and her own worst enemy, equal parts clear-eyed and totally misguided. In this prequel to the well-received A Kind of Spark...
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Review of Lost Evangeline
Lost Evangeline by Kate DiCamillo; illus. by Sophie BlackallIntermediate Candlewick 160 pp.9/25 9781536225525 $17.99e-book ed. 9781536247596 $17.99In this, the latest of DiCamillo’s Norendy stories (The Puppets of Spelhorst, rev. 9/23; The Hotel Balzaar, rev. 9/24), we meet a cast of characters who come trailing their folktale origins. Evangeline, in the...
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Review of A Hatful of Dreams
A Hatful of Dreams by Bob Graham; illus. by the authorPrimary Candlewick 40 pp.11/25 9781536245042 $18.99This offering from picture-book master-builder Graham (recently The Concrete Garden, rev. 11/23) consists of two braided stories. The first is one of urban decay and restoration: black-and-white line drawings show us Five Mile Road, a...
Five questions for Laura Amy Schlitz
Laura Amy Schlitz’s imagination has created books ranging from the Newbery-winning verse novel Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! to the multi-award-winning historical YA novel The Hired Girl. Her latest, The Winter of the Dollhouse (Candlewick, 9–12 years), is a doll story — with human and doll points of view. Can’t get...
Review of The Midwatch Institute for Wayward Girls
The Midwatch Institute for Wayward Girls by Judith Rossell; illus. by the author Intermediate, Middle School Dial 320 pp. 5/25 9798217002405 $18.99 Oppressed orphans, a boarding school, a 1920s setting, a determined heroine, and an exuberant mystery plot—we think we’ve seen it all before, but this entertaining romp has some...
Review of Sato the Rabbit: Morning Light
Sato the Rabbit: Morning Light by Yuki Ainoya; illus. by the author; trans. from Japanese by Michael Blaskowsky Preschool, Primary Enchanted Lion 40 pp. 5/25 9781592704392 $17.95 Is Sato a boy in a rabbit costume or a rabbit with a human face and bearing? Is he a kid or a...
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