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Review of The Golden Necklace: A Darjeeling Tea Mystery
The Golden Necklace: A Darjeeling Tea Mystery by Mitali Perkins; illus. by Maithili JoshiIntermediate, Middle School Charlesbridge 128 pp.10/25 9781623543730 $15.99Perkins intertwines a page-turning mystery featuring a plucky young sleuth with a thoughtful exploration of class, gender, and opportunity. Twelve-year-old Sona, a Nepali girl in present-day Darjeeling, India, has been...
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Review of Holy Night and Little Star: A Story for Christmas
Holy Night and Little Star: A Story for Christmas by Mitali Perkins; illus. by Khoa LePrimary Waterbrook 40 pp.9/23 9780593578049 $15.99e-book ed. 9780593578056 $7.99Resistant to change, Little Star is uncertain how she can help Maker on Holy Night. She follows the shepherds to a stable in Bethlehem and sees a...
Review of Hope in the Valley
Hope in the Valley by Mitali PerkinsMiddle School Farrar 304 pp.7/23 9780374388515 $17.99e-book ed. 9780374388508 $10.99The former orchard across from Pandita Paul’s home, dilapidated though it may be, holds a special place in the thirteen-year-old’s heart. It’s where she and her late mother used to spend time: “Ashar Jaiga, as...
A Note from Me (Jun 25, 2021)
Dear friends: How about them Boston Globe–Horn Book winners? Nothing like good news on a Wednesday to make people happy. Thank you again to our judges Luann Toth (chair), Shoshana Flax, and Nicholl Denice Montgomery; and thank you to our winners’ publishers for hearing the news with such happiness. I...
A Note from Me (May 28, 2021)
Dear friends: ALA is upon us! At least in HB land — I was just looking at layouts of The Speeches, gorgeous, and great speeches as well. That’s all you’ll get out of me. In her tenure as HB editor, Anita Silvey limited herself to saying “they aren’t too long,”...
A Note from Me (Mar 26, 2021)
Dear friends: For those readers who have caviled at the “liberal agenda” supposedly being promulgated in this weekly letter, let’s get this out of the way right at the top: this country needs more effective gun control now. Whatever mental illness, whatever racism, whatever evil drives a person to kill,...
Why Read Books from the Past?
Mitali Perkins's nonfiction book for adults Steeped in Stories: Timeless Children's Novels to Refresh Our Tired Souls (Broadleaf Books) will be published in August. In it Perkins examines seven classic children's novels — Anne of Green Gables, Heidi, Emily of Deep Valley, The Hobbit, Little Women, A Little Princess, and...
A Note from Me (Jan 15, 2021)
Dear friends: You know, with a panicking gangster/terrorist still occupying the White House, it’s not easy to write this letter on a Wednesday for publication two days later. Who knows what will happen between now and then? Please join me in looking forward to January 20th. Until then, join me...
Mitali Perkins at Belmont Books
I don't usually fangirl out (though, yes, when I do I go hard). In fact I can be downright mean about books! But last night Martha and I went to Belmont Books to see Mitali Perkins, author of one of my favorites from last year You Bring the Distant Near,...
The Book That Changed My Life: Jo March Is Me
Thank goodness we live in a literary era when cultural and racial identities are seen as important mirrors in stories. That wasn’t true when I came of age. Maybe that’s why it feels odd to confess that Jo March in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women was such a profound influence...
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