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Review of Compound Fracture
Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White High School Peachtree Teen 416 pp. 9/24 9781682636121 $19.99 e-book ed. 9781682637395 $19.99 Miles Abernathy lives in a struggling West Virginia town in 2017. Power is monopolized by the Davieses, the family of the sheriff and the Abernathys’ mortal enemies in a blood feud...
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Review of The Glass Girl
The Glass Girl by Kathleen GlasgowHigh School Delacorte 464 pp.10/24 9780525708087 $21.99Library ed. 9780525708094 $24.99e-book ed. 9780525708100 $10.99Bella deals with what feels like a million pressures: family, schoolwork, a breakup with a boyfriend who said she was “too much,” and grief over the recent loss of her grandmother. Without a...
Review of Noodle & Bao
Noodle & Bao by Shaina Lu; illus. by the authorIntermediate, Middle School Quill Tree/HarperCollins 224 pp.10/24 9780063283411 $24.99Paper ed. 9780063283404 $15.99e-book ed. 9780063283428 $11.99Momo has spent her entire life in her beloved Town 99, a fictional setting resembling real-world Chinatowns but where humans and anthropomorphic animals from different cultures coexist....
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Review of A Two-Placed Heart: A Memoir in Verse
A Two-Placed Heart: A Memoir in Verse by Doan Phuong NguyenIntermediate, Middle School Tu/Lee & Low 352 pp.9/24 9781643796420 $24.95In this fictionalized memoir in verse set in 1991, Bom both envies and resents her younger sister Bo’s ignorance about their life in Vietnam, before their family immigrated to the United...
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Review of That Always Happens Sometimes
That Always Happens Sometimes by Kiley Frank; illus. by K-Fai SteelePrimary Knopf 40 pp.7/24 9781984852434 $18.99Library ed. 9781984852441 $21.99e-book ed. 9781984852458 $10.99Max’s life can be more than a little hectic. Whether getting distracted and missing the bus, forgetting to do every item on various lists of important things, or careening...
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Review of Bao’s Doll
Bao’s Doll by Bo Lu; illus. by the authorPrimary Abrams 40 pp.6/24 9781419769214 $18.99e-book ed. 9798887070858 $17.09Lu sets up an intergenerational conflict familiar to many immigrant families: Bao, a young Taiwanese American child, yearns for her immigrant mother to understand her, but neither of them is fully able to empathize...
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Review of A Better Best Friend
A Better Best Friend by Olivier Tallec; illus. by the author; trans. from French by Antony ShugaarPreschool, Primary Gecko 32 pp.3/24 9781776575732 $18.99The squirrel protagonist and narrator encounters a mushroom sitting on a log and declares, “This is definitely a best friend. At least I think he is.” With this...
A Roundup of Picture Books About Food
Food is one of the universal elements of human experience: we all need sustenance to live. However, food is more than just something we put into our bodies; it comes with many symbolic social, cultural, and political meanings and often serves as a tool to bring people together. Here is...
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Review of Monsters at Christmas
Monsters at Christmas by Laura Baker; Preschool, Primary Happy Yak/Quarto 32 pp.9/23 9780711276727 $18.99A colorful array of monsters takes over the pages of this rhyming picture book. Baker’s zany verses, dynamically typeset to mirror the frenetic energy, take readers on a whirlwind tour of the monsters’ Christmas shenanigans and make...
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