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Our solar system and beyond
Adamson, Thomas K. The Secrets of NeptuneGr. K–3, 4–6 32 pp. CapstoneBerne, Emma Carlson The Secrets of EarthGr. K–3, 4–6 32 pp. CapstoneRadomski, Kassandra The Secrets of SaturnGr. K–3, 4–6 32 pp. CapstoneSmithsonian: Planets series. These books for second through fourth graders include basic facts about planets in our solar...
Architecture and engineering
Corey, Shana The Secret SubwayGr. K–3, 4–6 40 pp. Random/Schwartz & WadeIllustrated by Red Nose Studio. This tour de force tells of nineteenth-century inventor Alfred Ely Beach's solution to New York City's crowded streets: in 1870, he unveiled the first underground train, which went back and forth in a 294-foot...
Farm to table
Barker, David M. Organic FoodsGr. 4–6, middle school 64 pp. LernerHand, Carol Urban GardeningGr. 4–6, middle school 64 pp. LernerMickelson, Trina Free-Range FarmingGr. 4–6, middle school 64 pp. LernerPerdew, Laura Eating LocalGr. 4–6, middle school 64 pp. LernerGrowing Green series. This series for upper-middle-grades focusing on "green" food and farming...
Civics and community
Ancona, George Can We Help?: Kids Volunteering to Help Their CommunitiesGr. K–3 48 pp. CandlewickStraightforward text describes various ways that children can help those in need: through knitting hats for the homeless, tending a community garden that donates its produce, etc. Young readers may find the text cumulatively leaden, but...
Young people making a difference
Freedman, Russell We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf HitlerGr. 4–6, middle school 104 pp. ClarionFreedman's photohistory is an excellent overview of the White Rose resistance movement, a group of university students who, beginning in June 1942 in Munich, Germany, risked their lives...
ALA Awards 2017: Horn Book reviews of the winners
The most prestigious honors in children’s literature, the Newbery and Caldecott medals, were awarded to Kelly Barnhill for The Girl Who Drank the Moon and Javaka Steptoe for Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat on January 23rd, 2017, at the American Library Association’s midwinter meeting in Atlanta....
Winning!
If John Lewis (pictured above at the march in Atlanta on Saturday) hasn't made enough history, he is also the first person to win four awards in one day from the ALA: Lewis's book March: Book Three, written with Andrew Aydin and illustrated by Nate Powell, this morning won the Coretta Scott...
Review of Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor’s Story
Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor’s Storyby Caren StelsonMiddle School, High School Carolrhoda 144 pp.10/16 978-1-4677-8903-5 $19.99e-book ed. 978-1-5124-1884-2 $9.99The result of extensive interviews with Nagasaki atomic bomb survivor Sachiko Yasui, Stelson’s sensitively crafted account spans fifty years of Yasui’s life, starting in August 1945 when the bomb was dropped (she...
Additional ALA Awards 2017
Alex Awardsfor the ten best adult books that appeal to teen audiences• The Queen of Blood by Sarah Beth Durst (Harper Voyager)• The Regional Office is Under Attack! by Manuel Gonzales (Riverhead/Penguin Random House)• In the Country We Love: My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero with Michelle Burford (Holt)• Buffering:...
Review of Vietnam: A History of the War
Vietnam: A History of the Warby Russell FreedmanIntermediate, Middle School Holiday 150 pp.10/16 978-0-8234-3658-3 $20.00e-book ed. 978-0-8234-3748-1 $20.00Freedman opens his history of America’s second-longest war with the massive April 1971 protest against it, posing two questions that frame the entire text: “Was the Vietnam War a tragic mistake? Or was...
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