Book Reviews
Happy Cinco de Mayo! Celebrate with three updated booklists from the Guide/Reviews Database starring the holiday itself, Mexican and Mexican American protagonists, and the Spanish language. We've got recommended fiction and nonfiction titles for primary, intermediate, and older readers. Grade levels are only suggestions; the individual child is the real criterion....
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Find annotations, interview, and more, here. Picture Books Suggested grade level for all entries: PS–2 Wind Watchers by Micha Archer (Paulsen/Penguin) A Sleepless Night by Micaela Chirif; illus. by Joaquín Camp; trans. from Spanish by Jordan Landsman (Transit) Duckie & Snaps: We Cannot Be Friends by Ame Dyckman; illus. by Tim Miller (Orchard/Scholastic)...
Picture Books | Beginning Readers and Primary Grades | Intermediate | Middle School High School Suggested grade level for all entries: 9 and up Sọmadịna by Akwaeke Emezi (Knopf) Fifteen-year-old Sọmadịna’s beloved twin brother, Jayaike, is stolen away by a sinister figure who aims to consume the twins’...
Picture Books | Beginning Readers and Primary Grades | Intermediate | High School Middle School Suggested grade level for all entries: 6–8 Rebellion 1776 by Laurie Halse Anderson (Dlouhy/Atheneum) After the Siege of Boston, thirteen-year-old maid Elsbeth finds herself in a precarious situation when British troops — and...
Picture Books | Beginning Readers and Primary Grades | Middle School | High School Intermediate Suggested grade level for all entries: 4–6 Sea Legs by Jules Bakes; illus. by Niki Smith (Graphix/Scholastic) After third grade, Janey’s family moves onto their schooner to sail the Caribbean islands. Janey befriends...
Picture Books | Intermediate | Middle School | High School Beginning Readers and Primary Grades Suggested grade level for all entries: 1–3 How Sweet the Sound by Kwame Alexander; illus. by Charly Palmer (Little, Brown) This reverent nonfiction picture-book celebration of African American music begins its tour in...
Beginning Readers and Primary Grades | Intermediate | Middle School | High School Picture Books Suggested grade level for all entries: PS–2 Wind Watchers by Micha Archer (Paulsen/Penguin) Three children experience the invisible power of wind over the course of a year. They begin with a direct question...
International Holocaust Remembrance Day (established by the United Nations General Assembly) is January 27 and Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel, the United States, and other countries) is in April or May (in 2025 it's April 24). All of the following titles were recommended by The Horn Book Magazine and...
Comedy is particularly well suited to the structural limitations of the beginning reader format, where few words can stand in contrast with illustrations that show so much more. In this selection, I’ve highlighted a lot of humorous books, ranging from gentle to as sharp as they come, as these are...
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