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Wonder musical at A. R. T.
A vibrant theater scene is one of the perks of living in the Boston area, and American Repertory Theater (A. R. T.) in Cambridge is often a great place to catch shows when they’re brand-new. Recently, I attended a performance of Wonder, a new musical adaptation of R. J. Palacio’s...
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Review of Otherwise Known as Judy the Great: A Poetic Ode to Judy Blume
Otherwise Known as Judy the Great: A Poetic Ode to Judy Blume by Selina Alko; illus. by the authorPrimary Ottaviano/Little, Brown 48 pp.2/26 9780316570633 $18.99A collection of poems introduces author Judy Blume (b. 1938) to readers who may not yet have encountered much of her work. The poems focus mainly...
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Review of The Secret Astronomers
The Secret Astronomers by Jessica Walker; illus. by the authorMiddle School, High School Viking 304 pp.11/25 9780593692677 $19.99This inventive epistolary novel is presented as a series of notes taped or stuck into an old astronomy textbook in a Green Bank, West Virginia, high school library. At first the notes are...
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Review of Dear Jackie
Dear Jackie by Jessixa Bagley; illus. by Aaron BagleyIntermediate, Middle School Simon 288 pp.9/25 9781534496583 $24.99This graphic novel opens with a dramatic flash-forward scene making clear something is going to go very wrong in Jackie’s sixth-grade year. We then go back to the start of the school year: Jackie is...
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Review of Kindred Dragons
Kindred Dragons by Sarah MensingaIntermediate, Middle School Abrams Fanfare 208 pp.10/25 9781419771163 $24.99This graphic novel is set in a world that will feel familiar to Anne of Green Gables fans, with echoes of and references to Anne’s world, although knowledge of the ins and outs of Avonlea isn’t required. For...
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Review of Brady Mason’s Perfect Fit
Brady Mason’s Perfect Fit by Nicole MellebyIntermediate, Middle School Little, Brown 336 pp.1/26 9781523529360 $17.99Brady, twelve, lives in a New Jersey group home. She knows that she was adopted as a baby and that her adoptive parents died soon after, and she’s been moving around the foster system ever since....
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Review of Fanny’s Big Idea: How Jewish Book Week Was Born
Fanny’s Big Idea: How Jewish Book Week Was Born by Richard Michelson; illus. by Alyssa RussellPrimary Rocky Pond/Penguin 40 pp.11/25 9798217003259 $18.99This amiable picture-book biography introduces librarian Fanny Goldstein (1895–1961) with a focus on her youth and early career, leading up to her 1925 conception of Jewish Book Week. Young...
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Review of Beinoni
Beinoni by Mari LoweIntermediate, Middle School Levine/Levine Querido 288 pp.7/25 9781646145065 $18.99Seventh grader Ezra has a lot on his shoulders. Born with “a constellation of the Scales” on his skin that indicates he’s the Nivchar, or chosen one, for his generation, he’s spent years training for what’s destined to happen...
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Review of Golem Loves Latkes: A Tasty Hanukkah Tale
Golem Loves Latkes: A Tasty Hanukkah Tale by Doreen Klein Robinson; illus. by Anna Krajewska Primary Intergalactic Afikoman 40 pp. 10/25 9781951365325 $19.99 The people of Schmoozeville are fighting “like Judah and the Maccabees”: do latkes go best with applesauce or sour cream? Our narrator, a child visiting her bubbe,...
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