Book Reviews
If Looks Could Kill by Julie Berry High School Simon 448 pp. 9/25 9781534470811 $21.99 e-book ed. 9781534470835 $10.99 This expansive historical novel with Medusa-inspired fantasy elements features Jack the Ripper, Salvation Army missionaries, and new-made Gorgons in New York’s Bowery, 1888. With two principal viewpoints, Berry alternates between the...
The House That Floated by Guojing; illus. by the author Primary, Intermediate Random House Studio/Random 40 pp. 9/25 9780593709054 $18.99 Library ed. 9780593709061 $21.99 Guojing (The Flamingo, rev. 11/22; Oasis, rev. 3/25) presents a vivid wordless picture book about a family who lives in a small seaside cabin atop a...
Sisters in the Wind by Angeline Boulley High School Holt 384 pp. 9/25 9781250328533 $19.99 e-book ed. 9781250328540 $11.99 Lucy Smith knows that someone is following her, and she decides it’s time to leave town. At first she suspects the handsome Potawatomi man who insists on talking to her at...
Together, United [All Because You Matter] by Tami Charles; illus. by Bryan Collier Primary Orchard/Scholastic 40 pp. 9/25 9781338752052 $18.99 e-book ed. 9781546148562 $18.99 In this third installment of the affirming series (All Because You Matter, rev. 11/20; We Are Here, rev. 3/23), Charles’s evocative verse underscores a message of...
The Nine Moons of Han Yu and Luli by Karina Yan Glaser; illus. by the authorIntermediate, Middle School Allida/HarperCollins 432 pp.9/25 9780063284432 $19.99Make space on your shelf for this delectable, suspenseful adventure spanning more than a thousand years. Eleven-year-old Luli Lee lives in 1930s New York City, in the tightly...
The Tinkerers by Caroline CarlsonIntermediate, Middle School Candlewick 480 pp.10/25 9781536230505 $18.99Twelve-year-old Peter Huckaby-Green’s life changes when the Tinkerers arrive in his close-knit town of Stargazers Valley. Peter directs the two astromancers to his parents’ inn and agrees to help with their research into starstuff, a magical substance left by...
Reasons to Hate Me by Susan MetalloHigh School Candlewick 400 pp.9/25 9781536240351 $18.99High school senior Jess finds herself a pariah when her best friend Chloe’s boyfriend, Noah, sends a school-wide text claiming that she tried “to have sex with me.” Now Jess and Chloe aren’t speaking, and Chloe’s new friends...
Defanged by H.E. EdgmonMiddle School Feiwel 240 pp.9/25 9781250874009 $17.99Lux Priddy has always considered himself a good vampire who doesn’t make trouble for others, unlike those scary, violent vampires rumored to live in an underground society called Nox Urbus. In theory, he should be fine with being Defanged, a procedure...
Coach [Track]by Jason ReynoldsIntermediate, Middle School Dlouhy/Atheneum 256 pp.10/25 9798347102372 $17.99Middle-school athletes Ghost, Lu, Patina, and Sunny each have their own titles in Reynolds’s Track series (most recently Lu, rev. 11/18); now it’s Coach’s turn. Who was he before he was an inspiring leader? How did he grow up to...
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