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...
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...
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 Battle of the Beasts [Monkey King and the World of Myths]by Maple Lam; illus. by the authorIntermediate Putnam 256 pp.8/25 9780593524688 $24.99Paper ed. 9780593524695 $13.99e-book ed. 9780593524725 $8.99In this fast-paced follow-up to graphic novel The Monster and the Maze (rev. 3/24), plucky super-beast Sun Wukong, the monster-hunting Monkey King,...
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Review of The Five Wolves
The Five Wolves by Peter McCarty; illus. by the authorIntermediate, Middle School First Second 288 pp.10/25 9781250170620 $29.99McCarty presents a sprawling, image-rich meditation on art that asks readers to slow down and wander through its nonlinear, episodic journey. Five wolves set out on a ship, their canvasses at the ready....
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...
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Review of The School for Thieves
The School for Thieves by Peter BurnsIntermediate Aladdin/Simon 352 pp.8/25 9781665982283 $18.99When Tom Morgan’s small band of street children is kidnapped and sent to the workhouse, he has no luck getting them out until a man known as the Corsair recruits him to be a student in Beaufort’s School for...
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Review of The Rise of Neptune
The Rise of Neptune [Dragonships]by Scott ReintgenIntermediate, Middle School Aladdin/Simon 432 pp.10/25 9781665946544 $18.99In this sequel to The Last Dragon on Mars (rev. 1/25), Mars is under attack by aliens from Neptune’s largest moon, Triton; and Dread, the newly recognized planetary dragon of Mars, must defend his planet along with...
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...
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