Book Reviews
Climbing the Volcano: A Journey in Haiku by Curtis Manley; illus. by Jennifer K. MannPrimary Porter/Holiday 40 pp.1/24 9780823451661 $18.99e-book ed. 9780823457458 $11.99Manley offers a child’s point of view of a day-long hike up a mountain (identified in the back matter as the South Sister in Oregon’s Cascade Mountain Range)....
Barracoon: Adapted for Young Readers by Zora Neale Hurston; adapted by Ibram X. Kendi; illus. by Jazzmen Lee-JohnsonIntermediate, Middle School Amistad/HarperCollins 208 pp.1/24 9780063098336 $18.99e-book ed. 9780063098350 $10.99In 1860, more than fifty years after the United States outlawed the slave trade, the ship Clotilda journeyed back to Alabama from West...
★ A New Car for Pickle [I Like to Read: Comics] by Sylvie Kantorovitz; illus. by the author Primary Holiday 40 pp. 6/24 9780823456208 $14.99 Pickle (a dog) and a bird friend decide to drive to Clover Farm to get some strawberries and fresh cream, but soon after they set...
Henry and the Something New by Jenn Bailey; illus. by Mika SongPrimary Chronicle 56 pp.3/24 9781797213903 $14.99In his second early-chapter-book outing (Henry, like Always, rev. 3/23), Henry—a sensitive child who presents as being on the autism spectrum—is ambivalent about a field trip to the natural history museum. “Henry was excited....
Just like Millie by Lauren Castillo; illus. by the authorPreschool, Primary Candlewick 40 pp.4/24 9781536224818 $17.99e-book ed. 9781536237122 $17.99In this comforting story, a young girl and her mother move to a cozy apartment in a new city where she happily plays by herself whenever her mom has to work in...
Remembering Rosalind Franklin: Rosalind Franklin & the Discovery of the Double Helix Structure of DNA by Tanya Lee Stone; illus. by Gretchen Ellen Powers Primary, Intermediate Ottaviano/Little, Brown 40 pp. 2/24 9780316351249 $18.99 Stone’s dedication—“For anyone who did something awesome and didn’t feel the love”—sets the reparative tone for this...
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Review of A Game of Noctis
A Game of Noctis by Deva FaganIntermediate Atheneum 320 pp.4/24 9781665930192 $17.99e-book ed. 9781665930215 $10.99Ever since the plague three centuries ago, during which the Prince of Dantessa challenged Lady Death to a game of noctis for the lives of her people, inhabitants of the tiny magical island compete for wealth...
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Review of To the Ice
To the Ice by Thomas Tidholm; illus. by Anna-Clara Tidholm; trans. from Swedish by Julia MarshallPrimary, Intermediate Gecko 80 pp.11/23 9781776575077 $18.99At the start of this chapter book, three children (“Jack, Max and me, Ida”) playing by a creek accidentally float away on an ice floe. The creek becomes a...
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Review of Just Shy of Ordinary
Just Shy of Ordinary by A. J. SassMiddle School Little, Brown 384 pp.1/24 9780316506175 $16.99e-book ed. 9780316506373 $9.99Thirteen-year-old Shai Stern is looking for their “new normal.” In addition to an edgy new haircut and a change of pronouns, the former homeschooler is planning to attend public school for the first...
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