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Review of The Kid
The Kid by Jeff Schill Intermediate, Middle School Charlesbridge Moves 240 pp.5/24 9781623543648 $17.99It’s 1881 in Destiny, Colorado. Fourteen-year-old Henry Upton and his three younger brothers have just buried their father. Their mother passed away several years earlier, and now they must manage the homestead by themselves. Henry comes up...
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Review of The Color of a Lie
The Color of a Lie by Kim Johnson Middle School, High School Random 336 pp.6/24 9780593118801 $19.99Library ed. 9780593118818 $22.99e-book ed. 9780593118825 $10.99Moving to a new town can prove stressful for anyone—but for Calvin Greene and his family in 1955, it’s also dangerous. African Americans passing for white, the Greene...
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Review of The Last Apple Tree
The Last Apple Tree by Claudia Mills Intermediate, Middle School Ferguson/Holiday 272 pp.6/24 9780823457106 $17.99e-book ed. 9780823459339 $10.99Seventh graders Sonnet and Zeke are neighbors who hardly know each other; even the few well-intended interactions they have dissolve into misunderstanding. Both are lonely and struggle with complicated situations at home. Sonnet...
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Review of Eyes Open
Eyes Open by Lyn Miller-Lachmann High School Carolrhoda Lab 352 pp.5/24 9798765610114 $19.99In this verse novel, Sónia is living to the fullest as much as a fifteen-year-old girl can under the Salazar dictatorship in 1960s Portugal. She writes free-verse poetry, though the nuns at school deride it; loves her protester...
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Review of Puzzleheart
Puzzleheart by Jenn Reese Intermediate, Middle School Holt 224 pp.5/24 9781250783462 $18.99e-book ed. 9781250783479 $11.99Perigee arrives for a visit at their grandmother’s house with their father in the middle of a snowstorm. The visit has a serious purpose. Only-child Perigee feels responsible for their dad (we surmise from his behavior...
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Review of Where Wolves Don’t Die
Where Wolves Don’t Die by Anton Treuer Middle School, High School Levine/Levine Querido 256 pp.6/24 9781646143818 $18.99Fifteen-year-old Ezra Cloud wishes he were on the rez at Nigigoonsiminikaaning First Nation with Grandpa Liam. Instead, he is stuck in northeast Minneapolis, being bullied by Matt Schroeder. When Matt’s house burns down just...
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Review of The Strange Wonders of Roots
The Strange Wonders of Roots by Evan Griffith Intermediate, Middle School Quill Tree/HarperCollins 304 pp.5/24 9780063287969 $19.99e-book ed. 9780063287983 $9.99In the five years since her parents divorced, twelve-year-old Holly has lived in and visited lots of places with her actor father; she is used to not feeling rooted in any...
The Robin Smith Picture Book Prize
Photo courtesy of Dean Schneider. I bet I’m the only grown person (near-elderly, actually) to have burst into tears in a Mac Barnett signing line. The book was The Wolf, the Duck, and the Mouse written by Barnett and illustrated by Jon Klassen, and it was the inaugural winner of...
Profile of 2024 CSK Illustrator Award winner Dare Coulter: A Higher Level
R. Alnita Coulter and Dare Coulter. Photo courtesy of R. Alnita Coulter. When my daughter Dare Coulter heard she had won the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award, she screamed. So did I, and the rest of our family, as we gathered around computer screens like they gathered around TV consoles...
Review of Taming Papa
Taming Papa by Mylène Goupil; trans. from French by Shelley TanakaIntermediate Groundwood 160 pp.3/24 9781773067230 $16.99e-book ed. 9781773067247 $14.99Mélie lives alone with her mother, Sofia, until one day they receive a phone call informing them that Sami (Mélie’s father) will be released from prison. This is the first Mélie has...
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