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Review of Please Pay Attention
Please Pay Attention by Jamie SumnerIntermediate, Middle School Atheneum 240 pp.4/25 9781665956079 $17.99e-book ed. 9781665956093 $10.99In a series of entries in verse, sixth grader Bea Coughlin narrates the story of something important she wants us to “please pay attention” to. Bea tells her story slowly, revealing characters and their relationships...
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Review of Joan Mitchell Paints a Symphony: La Grande Vallée Suite
Joan Mitchell Paints a Symphony: La Grande Vallée Suite by Lisa Rogers; illus. by Stacy InnerstPrimary, Intermediate Calkins/Astra 40 pp.2/25 9781662680373 $18.99e-book ed. 9781662680380 $11.99Twentieth-century American painter Joan Mitchell (1925–1992) was inspired by a “verdant valley” in northwest France to create a series of twenty-one gigantic paintings. Standing on a...
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Review of Hilwa’s Gifts
Hilwa’s Gifts by Safa Suleiman; illus. by Anait SemirdzhyanPrimary Candlewick 40 pp.4/25 9781536229424 $18.99Ali visits his grandparents in Palestine, where they grow olive trees on their land. Ali and his seedo (grandfather) have a close bond; Seedo twirls Ali in the air and gives piggyback rides. It’s olive harvesting season,...
Review of The Shape of Lost Things
The Shape of Lost Things by Sarah Everett Middle School Harper/HarperCollins 272 pp. 10/24 9780063256613 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780063256620 $9.99 When Skye was six years old, her parents, both physicists, divorced. She and her brother, Finn, spent alternate weekends with their dad, but he became increasingly obsessed with physics and...
(Re)Visiting the past
These eight novels are a great way to help intermediate and/or middle-school readers imagine what it was like to live through various times in the past. Scattergood by H. M. Bouwman Intermediate, Middle School Porter/Holiday 320 pp. 1/25 9780823457755 $18.99 e-book ed. 9780823462308 $11.99 It’s June 1941 in West Branch,...
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...
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Review of A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall
A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall by Jasmine WargaIntermediate, Middle School Harper/HarperCollins 224 pp.9/24 9780062956705 $19.99e-book ed. 9780062956729 $9.99Sixth grade is not going well for Rami Ahmed: his friends no longer want anything to do with him, leaving him feeling lonely and invisible. His single mother, a Lebanese immigrant...
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Review of On the Block: Stories of Home
On the Block: Stories of Home edited by Ellen OhIntermediate, Middle School Crown 208 pp.10/24 9780593648445 $17.99Library ed. 9780593648452 $20.99e-book ed. 9780593648469 $10.99Composed of twelve stories written by a dozen different authors, this We Need Diverse Books anthology is organized by apartment number in a New York City building. Each...
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Review of Safe Harbor
Safe Harbor by Padma VenkatramanIntermediate, Middle School Paulsen/Penguin 176 pp.1/25 9780593112502 $17.99e-book ed. 9780593112519 $10.99Geetha and her mother, who lives with depression, move from Chennai, India, to Rhode Island, leaving behind the rest of their family and settling in an apartment near Narragansett Bay. Geetha is lonely at school and...
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Review of Very Bad at Math
Very Bad at Math by Hope Larson; illus. by the authorMiddle School HarperAlley/HarperCollins 240 pp.1/25 9780063311299 $24.99Paper ed. 9780063311282 $15.99e-book ed. 9780063311305 $10.99Verity “Very” Nelson is very good at many things: she has just won her third term as student council president and is called “the gold standard of middle...
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