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Review of A Banquet for Cecilia: How Cecilia Chiang Revolutionized Chinese Food in America

A Banquet for Cecilia: How Cecilia Chiang Revolutionized Chinese Food in America by Julie Leung; illus. by Melissa IwaiPrimary    Little, Brown    40 pp.4/25    9780759557413    $18.99Take a compelling story of an indomitable chef, add heaps of immersive sensory details, stir in a warm palette, then devour this tasty introduction to Cecilia...
      

Review of Night Light

Night Light [I Like to Read: Comics]by Michael Emberley; illus. by the authorPrimary    Holiday    40 pp.4/25    9780823458165    $14.99Emberley’s familiar pink-and-green-pajama-wearing creature (see Let’s Go!, rev. 1/23, and others) returns for another imaginative early-reader-comic mini-adventure, this time with a parent in tow. It’s bedtime, and after selecting a story (one that...
      

Review of Anything

Anything by Rebecca Stead; illus. by Gracey ZhangPrimary    Chronicle    48 pp.4/25    9781797215150    $17.99In this first picture book written by middle-grade powerhouse Stead (Newbery Medalist for When You Reach Me, rev. 7/09), the unnamed narrator’s father serves up chocolate cake to celebrate their first day in apartment 3B. “But something was...
      

Review of Plight of the Pelican: How Science Saved a Species

Plight of the Pelican: How Science Saved a Species [Books for a Better Earth] by Jessica Stremer; illus. by Gordy Wright Primary    Holiday    40 pp. 4/25    9780823457038    $19.99 e-book ed.  9780823462094    $11.99 The partnership between Stremer’s expressive and suspenseful text and Wright’s evocative hand-painted gouache, ink, and acrylic illustrations (see...
      

Review of (S)Kin

(S)Kin by Ibi ZoboiHigh School    Versify/HarperCollins    400 pp.2/25    9780062888877    $19.99e-book ed.  9780062888891    $10.99In this verse novel with a basis in Caribbean folklore, fifteen-year-old Marisol and her mother, Lourdes, have recently emigrated from the Caribbean to Brooklyn. The two are soucouyant, shapeshifting “monsters” who shed their skin during the new moon...
      

Review of Sakina and the Uninvited Guests

Sakina and the Uninvited Guests by Zahra Marwan; illus. by the authorPrimary    Bloomsbury    40 pp.4/25    9781547613427    $18.99e-book ed.  9781547613434    $13.29When a sandstorm makes “the city orange—the sun like a tangerine, the waves like clementine peels,” Sakina and her mother spend the day at a museum. While her mother is moved...
      

Review of Are We There Yet?: The First Road Trip Across the USA

Are We There Yet?: The First Road Trip Across the USA by Stacy McAnulty; illus. by Elizabeth BaddeleyPrimary, Intermediate    McElderry    48 pp.3/25    9781665937474    $19.99e-book ed.  9781665937481    $10.99In 1903, when Vermont doctor Horatio Nelson (1872–1955) began his attempt to cross the United States in an automobile he had yet to learn...
      

Review of Oasis

Oasis by Guojing; illus. by the authorIntermediate, Middle School    Godwin/Holt    160 pp.2/25    9781250818379    $21.99Paper ed.  9781250818386    $14.99e-book ed.  9781250415790    $9.99As this graphic novel opens, JieJie and her younger brother, Didi, press their way through a windswept landscape toward an isolated telephone booth in the desert. It’s their way of reaching...
      

Review of A Book of Maps for You

A Book of Maps for You by Lourdes Heuer; illus. by Maxwell Eaton IIIPrimary    Porter/Holiday    40 pp.4/25    9780823455706    $18.99e-book ed.  9780823462230    $11.99Narrated in the style of a personalized guidebook, the story unfolds as a series of maps, introducing a child to a new home and its environs within a vibrant...
      

Review of And She Was Loved: Toni Morrison’s Life in Stories

And She Was Loved: Toni Morrison’s Life in Stories by Andrea Davis Pinkney; illus. by Daniel Minter Primary, Intermediate    Little, Brown    48 pp. 1/25    9780316182362    $18.99 Toni Morrison (1931–2019), a gifted student, was the only Black girl in her Lorain, Ohio, first-grade class. She grew up to be a trailblazing...
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