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Review of Loudmouth: Emma Goldman vs. America (A Love Story)

Loudmouth: Emma Goldman vs. America (A Love Story) by Deborah Heiligman High School    Farrar    336 pp. 9/25    9781250823076    $21.99 e-book ed.  9781250823083    $11.99 Heiligman’s newest work of nonfiction touches on a long list of hot-button contemporary issues: due process, free speech, gender equity, economic inequality, pacifism, prison reform, reproductive freedom,...

Review of The Blue Jays That Grew a Forest

The Blue Jays That Grew a Forest by Lynn Street; illus. by Anne Hunter Primary    Quinlin/Peachtree    48 pp. 8/25    9781682636046    $18.99 Most everyone knows that “mighty oaks from little acorns grow,” as the old saw goes, but how many people know that blue jays are integral to their propagation? Street’s...
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Review of Life (as We Know It)

Life (as We Know It) by Ziggy Hanaor; illus. by Cristóbal SchmalPrimary, Intermediate    Cicada    64 pp.10/25    9781800660564    $21.99Introducing the evolution of life on Earth in sixty-four pages is like eating a metaphorical elephant: one takes it one bite at a time. Hanaor’s bites start before the Big Bang and conclude...
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Review of Pool Party!

Pool Party! [Tiny Habitats]by Amy Hevron; illus. by the authorPrimary    Beach Lane/Simon    48 pp.9/25    9781665935043    $19.99e-book ed.  9781665935050    $10.99Hevron’s (Sunken Ship, rev. 9/24) latest foray takes readers to a South American rainforest, where her focus is the “freshwater pools [that form] among the leaves of a bromeliad” (a flowering plant)—specifically,...
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Review of Our Air

Our Air by G. Brian Karas; illus. by the authorPrimary    Paulsen/Penguin    32 pp.10/25    9780593625514    $18.99With the opening sentence, “I am the Air,” Karas (On Earth, rev. 9/05) establishes personified air as the narrator, reassuring readers that even though, scientifically speaking, they cannot see or smell or hear it (“what you...
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Review of Measuring Up: How Oliver Smoot Became a Standard Unit of Measurement

Measuring Up: How Oliver Smoot Became a Standard Unit of Measurement by Jenny Lacika; illus. by Anna BronPrimary, Intermediate    MIT Press/Candlewick    32 pp.9/25    9781536230123    $18.99This unusual nonfiction picture book combines math, hijinks, and etymology—a subject amalgamation readers don’t encounter every day. In the mid-twentieth century, a group of MIT students...
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Review of What Louis Brandeis Knows: A Crusader for Social Justice Becomes a Supreme Court Justice

What Louis Brandeis Knows: A Crusader for Social Justice Becomes a Supreme Court Justice by Richard Michelson; illus. by Stacy InnerstPrimary, Intermediate    Astra/Calkins Creek    48 pp.10/25    9781662680632    $18.99This picture-book biography follows Louis Brandeis (1856–1941) from his secular Jewish childhood in Kentucky with immigrant parents from Prague through his career as...

Review of A World Without Summer: A Volcano Erupts, a Creature Awakens, and the Sun Goes Out

A World Without Summer: A Volcano Erupts, a Creature Awakens, and the Sun Goes Out by Nicholas Day; illus. by Yas ImamuraIntermediate, Middle School    Random House Studio/Random    304 pp.9/25    9780593643877    $19.99On April 10, 1815, on the small Indonesian island of Sumbawa, the volcano Tambora erupted with such explosive force that...
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Review of Woody’s Words: Woodrow Wilson Rawls and Where the Red Fern Grows

Woody’s Words: Woodrow Wilson Rawls and Where the Red Fern Grows by Lisa Rogers; illus. by Susan ReaganPrimary    Astra/Calkins Creek    32 pp.9/25    9781662680298    $18.99In early 1900s Oklahoma, young Woody Rawls’s (1913–1984) education came from the woods, fields, and riverbanks he roamed with his loyal hound dog. His mother often read...
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