Book Reviews
Star Sailor: My Life as a NASA Astronaut by Charles F. Bolden Jr. and Tonya Bolden Middle School Candlewick 112 pp. 10/24 9781536216325 $19.99 Charles Bolden credits Ron McNair, NASA’s second Black astronaut, with encouraging him to apply to be an astronaut. Despite having been a Marine pilot and holding...
Golden Gate: Building the Mighty Bridge by Elizabeth Partridge; illus. by Ellen Heck Primary, Intermediate Chronicle 56 pp. 10/24 9781452135144 $19.99 “Cold winter winds rattle your window and the blast of the foghorn weaves into your morning dreams, warning ships away from the rocky cliffs behind you.” In a second-person...
Represent: The Unfinished Fight for the Vote by Michael Eric Dyson and Marc FavreauMiddle School, High School Little, Brown 256 pp.9/24 9780759557062 $19.99e-book ed. 9780759557055 $12.99Dyson and Favreau (Unequal: A Story of America) explore the history of the right to vote in the United States, presenting the complexity of America’s...
Doña Fela’s Dream by Monica Brown; illus. by Rose Ibarra Primary Little, Brown 48 pp. 9/24 9780316178358 $18.99 Spanish ed. 9780316581660 $11.99 A richly illustrated picture-book biography of Puerto Rico’s first female mayor, Felisa Rincón de Gautier (1897–1994), with a lively text. As a tropical storm batters San Juan at...
A Voice of Hope: The Myrlie Evers-Williams Story by Nadia Salomon; illus. by London LaddPrimary Philomel 40 pp.9/24 9780593525913 $18.99e-book ed. 9780593525920 $11.99This picture-book biography begins with Evers-Williams (b. 1933), the first woman to chair the NAACP full time, speaking at President Barack Obama’s second inauguration in 2013. “Her voice—strong...
Halfway There: A Graphic Memoir of Self-Discovery by Christine Mari; illus. by the authorHigh School LB Ink/Little, Brown 304 pp.10/24 9780316416658 $24.99Paper ed. 9780316416726 $17.99e-book ed. 9780316416825 $9.99A Japanese American author-illustrator describes her inner journey to find herself while taking an actual journey to Japan. With an Asian mother and...
The Doll Test: Choosing Equality by Carole Boston Weatherford; illus. by David Elmo CooperPrimary Carolrhoda 32 pp.11/24 9781728477930 $18.99This powerful picture book brings to life the essential research of psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark, whose work significantly influenced the fight against segregation, having concluded that “school segregation made Black children...
The Mythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship of C. S. Lewis & J. R. R. Tolkien by John Hendrix; illus. by the authorHigh School Abrams Fanfare 224 pp.9/24 9781419746345 $24.99e-book ed. 9781683359630 $22.49In this ambitious tandem biography of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, we are presented with two approaches...
Love Is Hard Work: The Art and Heart of Corita Kent by Dan Paley; illus. by Victoria Tentler-KrylovPrimary, Intermediate Candlewick 40 pp.11/24 9781536220322 $18.99It only takes a “little heart” to make a big impact, and so tells the story of artist and religious sister Corita Kent (1918–1986). As a child,...
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