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Review of The Unexpected Lives of Ordinary Girls
The Unexpected Lives of Ordinary Girls by J. Anderson Coats Middle School Atheneum 272 pp. 9/25 9781665968614 $17.99 In 1910 small-town Colorado, Stanislava’s plan for getting out of her Slovene immigrant community—going by the “American name” of Sylvia, concealing her heritage to avoid discrimination, and one day going to college—comes...
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Review of Birdy
Birdy by N. West MossIntermediate Ottaviano/Little, Brown 288 pp.2/26 9780316446419 $17.99Eleven-year-old Birdy and her younger brother, Mouse, leave New York City to live with distant cousins upstate after their mother’s death. Birdy is skeptical of the elderly Mitzie and Shadow because of their advanced age, their rural location, her own...
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Review of Severe and Unusual Weather
Severe and Unusual Weather by Jessie Ann FoleyIntermediate, Middle School Quill Tree/HarperCollins 272 pp.5/25 9780063207783 $19.99e-book ed. 9780063207806 $8.99When Nadine moves to Centralia, Illinois, to live with her grandmother while her mom goes to rehab for drug addiction, her goal is to keep her head down, stay out of middle...
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Review of Queenie in Seven Moves
Queenie in Seven Moves by Zanni LouiseIntermediate Candlewick 256 pp.4/25 9781536235838 $18.99e-book ed. 9781536242218 $18.99In this Australian import, things are bad enough when stage fright keeps Queenie Jean Anderson from performing in the last concert before the end of sixth grade. But when she gets home, she learns that the...
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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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