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Outsider Kids [Parachute Kids] by Betty C. Tang; illus. by the author Intermediate, Middle School Graphix/Scholastic 288 pp. 4/25 9781338832723 $24.99 Paper ed. 9781338832716 $14.99 e-book ed. 9781338832730 $14.99 Tang continues the saga of the Lin family begun in the graphic novel Parachute Kids (rev. 5/23). In 1981, the family...
Our Lake by Angie Kang; illus. by the author Primary Kokila/Penguin 40 pp. 3/25 9780593698235 $19.99 e-book ed. 9780593698242 $10.99 At the start of this bittersweet ode to the enduring bonds of family, the unnamed young narrator and “Brother” embark on a summer outing, hiking to a jewel-like lake complete...
Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown by Candace Fleming Middle School, High School Schwartz/Random 368 pp. 4/25 9780593480069 $19.99 Library ed. 9780593480076 $22.99 e-book ed. 9780593480083 $11.99 On Saturday, November 18, 1978, more than nine hundred members of Jim Jones’s Peoples Temple died at...
Run Away with Me by Brian Selznick; illus. by the author High School Scholastic 320 pp. 4/25 9781339035529 $24.99 e-book ed. 9781546110224 $24.99 Selznick’s first young adult work is imbued with romance and mystery, bookended with long, cinematic passages of textural, wordless, black-and-white illustrations in his signature style. A sixteen-year-old...
Elsa’s Chessboard by Jenny Andrus; illus. by Julie Downing Primary Porter/Holiday 48 pp. 4/25 9780823454082 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780823462254 $11.99 Chess and a chessboard become defining features of a young Viennese Jewish girl’s life at the turn of the twentieth century. Elsa, age six, loves to watch her three brothers...
Sọmadịna by Akwaeke Emezi High School Knopf 304 pp. 4/25 9780593309070 $19.99 e-book ed. 9780593309094 $10.99 Fifteen-year-old Sọmadịna has always been close to her twin brother, Jayaike. He is the one person she can count on to support her in the face of anything, from prejudice to their mother’s emotional...
The Endless Sea by Chi Thai; illus. by Linh Dao Primary Candlewick 40 pp. 3/25 9781536239607 $18.99 e-book ed. 9781536249989 $18.99 In this somber, emotional, semiautobiographical picture book, Thai tells a story based on memories of her family’s escape from postwar Vietnam. Using spare, straightforward language, the young narrator shares...
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