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Reviews of the 2024 Printz Award Winners
Winner The Collectors: Stories edited by A.S. King High School Dutton 272 pp. 9/23 9780593620281 $19.99 As King explains in an introduction, she asked nine fellow YA authors "to write me a story about a collection and its collector," and encouraged "weird" tales. The results include quite a...
Reviews of the 2024 Pura Belpré Illustrator Award Winners
Winner Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir by Pedro Martín; illus. by the author Intermediate, Middle School Dial 320 pp. 8/23 9780593462287 $24.99 Paper ed. 9780593462294 $14.99 e-book ed. 9780593462300 $9.99 Martín’s humorous and heartfelt memoir recounts a momentous 1977 road trip with his “big Mexican American family.” Apá and Amá gather...
Reviews of the 2024 Pura Belpré Author Award Winners
Winner Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir by Pedro Martín; illus. by the author Intermediate, Middle School Dial 320 pp. 8/23 9780593462287 $24.99 Paper ed. 9780593462294 $14.99 e-book ed. 9780593462300 $9.99 Martín’s humorous and heartfelt memoir recounts a momentous 1977 road trip with his “big Mexican American family.” Apá and Amá gather...
Reviews of the 2024 CSK Author Award Winners
Winner Nigeria Jones by Ibi Zoboi High School Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 384 pp. 5/23 9780062888846 $19.99 e-book ed. 9780062888860 $12.99 Sixteen-year-old Nigeria is expected to lead the youth of the Movement (which is “like a small African West Philly village in the big, white state of Pennsylvania”) and model what...
Reviews of the 2024 Newbery Medal Winners
Winner The Eyes and the Impossible by Dave Eggers; illus. by Shawn Harris Intermediate Knopf 272 pp. 5/23 9781524764203 $19.99 e-book ed. 9781524764227 $10.99 Canine narrator Johannes lives wild in a park and serves as the Eyes, appointed by the penned-up Bison to report what he sees. The...
It's almost Valen-time
These four YA stories have one thing in common: love, which is there for its characters through a wide range of situations, including difficult times. By Any Other Name by Erin Cotter Middle School, High School Simon 464 pp. 10/23 9781665940719 $21.99 e-book ed. 9781665940733 $10.99 A fanciful treat set...
Rising to the occasion
As Black History Month approaches in February (watch for our upcoming annual coverage!), these seven books are helpful starting points for intermediate and/or middle-school readers seeking engaging and resilient Black protagonists in compelling fictional narratives that reflect a range of experience, from light-and-lively (see: Stuntboy’s antics) to more serious (and...
Go forth and help
The subjects of these six picture-book biographies for primary and intermediate readers made a difference in the world around them through means ranging from political activism to the arts. To learn about another community helper, see our Five Questions interview with Breanna J. McDaniel and April Harrison about Go Forth...
Review of The Blood Years
The Blood Years by Elana K. ArnoldHigh School Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 400 pp.10/23 9780062990853 $19.99e-book ed. 9780062990877 $10.99In this historical novel set in Czernowitz, Romania, thirteen-year-old Rieke and her beautiful, headstrong older sister, Astra, live with their depressive mother and religiously observant grandfather, Opa, a jeweler and business owner. As...
Books for Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Perhaps now more than ever, Martin Luther King Jr. Day provides an opportunity to reflect not only on the life of the great civil rights leader, but also on how far we've come — and how very far we still have to go. Below is an updated list of recommended...
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