Book Reviews
The Penderwicks in Springby Jeanne BirdsallIntermediate Knopf 339 pp.3/15 978-0-375-87077-4 $16.99Library ed. 978-0-375-97077-1 $19.99 ge-book ed. 978-0-307-97459-4 $10.99In this fourth Penderwicks book, time has passed and the family landscape has changed. Mr. Penderwick has married the lovely Iantha; Rosalind is away at college; and Skye is fending off best friend...
April is National Poetry Month, and what better way to celebrate than by talking with acclaimed poet Nikki Grimes? Her many books include narratives in verse, prose fiction, poetry collections, and nonfiction, frequently featuring African American characters and culture. In Grimes's latest picture book, Poems in the Attic (illustrated by...
Gritty and intense but also full of heart and hope, each of these four YA novels stars a teenage boy facing some of life's most serious challenges.Andrew Smith follows his 2014 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award–winning Grasshopper Jungle with the similarly multilayered, ambitious novel The Alex Crow. Fifteen-year-old war refugee Ariel...
From an aspiring journalist to an up-and-coming roller derby grrl, the determined and curious female protagonists of these intermediate and middle-school books are ready to take on the world.In Tricia Springstubb's Moonpenny Island, the titular tiny Ohio vacation spot is lousy with fossils — specifically, of trilobites from the Cambrian...
The Tight-Rope Walkersby David AlmondHigh School Candlewick 326 pp.3/15 978-0-7636-7310-9 $17.99 gDom is a clever, working-class boy from the north of England, beloved of his teachers, the hope of his parents. It’s the early 1960s, an optimistic period in British education, when the son of a shipbuilder could plausibly end...
In the March/April 2015 issue of The Horn Book Magazine, reviewer Claire Gross talked to author Sara Pennypacker about the end of her long-running Clementine series. Read the full review of Completely Clementine here.Claire E. Gross: What was the hardest part about saying goodbye to Clementine?Sara Pennypacker: Clementine was a...
Completely Clementineby Sara Pennypacker; illus. by Marla FrazeePrimary, Intermediate Disney-Hyperion 181 pp.3/15 978-1-4231-2358-3 $14.99 gIn this series-ender, third grade is almost over, but Clementine is far from ready to say goodbye to her familiar classmates and supportive teacher. Mr. D’Matz keeps trying to tell her about all the ways she’s...
Listen, Slowlyby Thanhhà LạiIntermediate, Middle School Harper/HarperCollins 260 pp.2/15 978-0-06-222918-2 $16.99This second novel from National Book Award winner Lại (Inside Out and Back Again, rev. 3/11) grabs readers from the start. California girl Mai is on a plane, accompanying Ba, her grandmother, on a trip to Vietnam. Mai, who planned...
Challenger Deepby Neal Shusterman; illus. by Brendan ShustermanHigh School HarperTeen 318 pp.4/15 978-0-06-113411-1 $17.99 ge-book 978-0-06-223172-7 $9.99This novel is a challenge to the reader from its first lines: author Shusterman takes us into the seemingly random, rambling, and surreal fantasies of fifteen-year-old Caden Bosch (yes, it makes sense to associate...
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