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Maizy Chen’s Last Chance by Lisa Yee Intermediate, Middle School Random 288 pp. g 2/22 978-1-9848-3025-8 $16.99 Library ed. 978-1-9848-3026-5 $19.99 e-book ed. 978-1-9848-3028-9 $9.99 Eleven-year-old Maizy and her mother leave fast-paced Los Angeles to spend the summer in languorous Last Chance, Minnesota. Oma and Opa, Maizy’s grandparents, own Golden...
Little Red and the Cat Who Loved Cake by Barbara Lehman; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Clarion/HarperCollins 64 pp. g 11/21 978-0-358-31510-0 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-0-358-31663-3 $13.99 Lehman’s (The Red Book, rev. 9/04) latest is an inventive retelling of “Little Red Riding Hood” — wordless save for signage and...
Brookie and Her Lamb by M. B. Goffstein; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary NYRB 32 pp. g 3/21 978-1-68137-545-8 $16.95 Fish for Supper by M. B. Goffstein; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary NYRB 32 pp. g 3/21 978-1-68137-546-5 $16.95 Two spare, barely there picture books by minimalist author-illustrator...
We Are One: How the World Adds Up by Susan Hood; illus. by Linda Yan Primary Candlewick 32 pp. g 11/21 978-1-5362-0114-7 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5362-2785-7 $9.99 Math meets philosophy, as Hood views numbers, specifically groups of one to ten, through a unique and thought-provoking lens: the Aristotelian concept that...
Himawari House by Harmony Becker; illus. by the author High School First Second 384 pp. g 11/21 978-1-250-23556-5 $24.99 Paper ed. 978-1-250-23557-2 $17.99 In this expertly crafted graphic novel, recent high school grad Nao, born in Japan and raised in the American Midwest, spends a gap year in Tokyo. “Only...
2021 Fiction & Poetry A Sitting in St. James by Rita Williams-Garcia (Quill Tree/HarperCollins) Honor Books: Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi with Yusef Salaam, illus. by Omar T. Pasha (Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins); Fighting Words by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (Dial) Nonfiction From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent...
It Fell from the Sky by Terry Fan and Eric Fan; illus. by the authors Preschool, Primary Simon 56 pp. g 9/21 978-1-5344-5762-1 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5344-5763-8 $10.99 This contemporary fable begins on its title page with a cat’s-eye marble falling to earth from the sky. The mysterious object is...
Little Bird’s Day by Sally Morgan; illus. by Johnny Warrkatja Malibirr Primary Blue Dot Kids 32 pp. g 10/21 978-1-7362264-6-9 $18.95 As soon as the sun peeks above the horizon, a silver-crowned friarbird alerts the denizens of Australia’s Arnhem Land region that the day has begun. Aboriginal writer Morgan (who...
Across the Rainbow Bridge: Stories of Norse Gods and Humans by Kevin Crossley-Holland; illus. by Jeffrey Alan Love Intermediate, Middle School, High School Candlewick Studio 88 pp. g 10/21 978-1-5362-1771-1 $18.99 In five stories, Norse gods cross the rainbow bridge from Asgard and visit us below, in the world of...
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