Book Reviews
Small in the City by Sydney Smith; illus. by the author Preschool, Primary Porter/Holiday 40 pp. 9/19 978-0-8234-4261-4 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-0-8234-4395-6 $11.99 In Smith’s (Sidewalk Flowers, rev. 5/15; Town Is by the Sea, rev. 3/17) debut as both illustrator and author, an intrepid child on the move in the...
Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks by Jason Reynolds Intermediate, Middle School Dlouhy/Atheneum 193 pp. 10/19 978-1-4814-3828-5 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-4814-3830-8 $10.99 Ten blocks. Ten stories. Lots of middle-school kids doing many different things after school. Jasmine and TJ walk home together, wondering what they’re made of—dust...
Firefighters’ Handbook by Meghan McCarthy; illus. by the author Primary Wiseman/Simon 48 pp. 9/19 978-1-5344-1733-5 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5344-1734-2 $10.99 McCarthy (Astronaut Handbook, rev. 7/08; All That Trash, rev. 5/18) brings her recognizable illustration style (bug-eyed humans with sideways grins) to the kid-captivating topic of firefighting. Friendly, direct-address text covers...
The Shortest Day by Susan Cooper; illus. by Carson Ellis Primary Candlewick 32 pp. g 10/19 978-0-7636-8698-7 $17.99 “So the shortest day came, and the year died, / And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world / Came people singing, dancing / To drive the dark away.” Thus begins...
A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation by Barry Wittenstein; illus. by Jerry Pinkney Primary, Intermediate Porter/Holiday 48 pp. g 8/19 978-0-8234-4331-4 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-0-8234-4374-1 $11.99 This superbly executed picture book takes readers behind the scenes of the writing of Dr....
A Place to Belong by Cynthia Kadohata; illus. by Julia Kuo Intermediate, Middle School Dlouhy/Atheneum 405 pp. 5/19 978-1-4814-4664-8 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-4814-4666-2 $10.99 They had been such proud Americans—working hard at their San Francisco restaurant and hopeful for the future. Then came Pearl Harbor, and Hanako, her little brother,...
The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys High School Philomel 498 pp. g 10/19 978-0-399-16031-8 $18.99 Sepetys’s riveting historical epic examines the enduring effects of the Spanish Civil War through the perspectives of four young people living under the shadow of Franco’s fascist dictatorship in 1957 Madrid. Ana and Rafael...
River by Elisha Cooper; illus. by the author Primary Orchard/Scholastic 48 pp. g 10/19 978-1-338-31226-3 $18.99 A woman says goodbye to her family and begins a three-hundred-mile canoe journey down a river. "In her canoe: tent, sleeping bag, guidebook, map, life jacket, first-aid kit, waterproof duffle with food, clothes, water...
Liberty Arrives!: How America’s Grandest Statue Found Her Home by Robert Byrd; illus. by the author Primary, Intermediate Dial 40 pp. g 6/19 978-0-7352-3082-8 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-5255-5451-6 $10.99 Byrd (Boston Globe–Horn Book Nonfiction Award winner for Electric Ben, rev. 11/12) approaches his topic as systematically and artistically as did...
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