Book Reviews
Song of a Blackbird by Maria van Lieshout; illus. by the authorMiddle School, High School First Second 256 pp.1/25 9781250869814 $25.99Paper ed. 9781250869821 $17.99e-book ed. 9781250412119 $11.99This deeply personal and poetic graphic novel illustrates the heroic actions of everyday Dutch people as they resisted the Nazi regime, as well as...
Thunder City [Mortal Engines]by Philip ReeveMiddle School, High School Scholastic 336 pp.11/24 9781546138235 $19.99e-book ed. 9781546138242 $19.99This prequel to Reeve’s acclaimed postapocalyptic, steampunk Mortal Engines series opens some two hundred years earlier, during the peaceful Golden Age of Traction, as the city of Thorbury is violently boarded and captured by...
The Other Side of Tomorrow by Tina Cho; illus. by Deb JJ LeeIntermediate, Middle School HarperAlley/HarperCollins 224 pp.11/24 9780063011083 $24.99Paper ed. 9780063011076 $15.99e-book ed. 9780063011090 $10.99In this intense and moving comic, we follow two North Korean refugees—Yunho, a shy, thoughtful boy; and Myunghee, a music-loving girl—on a harrowing year-long trek...
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Review of This Is the Year
This Is the Year by Gloria MuñozHigh School Holiday 368 pp.1/25 9780823458363 $18.99e-book ed. 9780823462186 $11.99In this evocative near-future science fiction novel, high school senior Juli is still reeling from the death of her twin sister, Ofe, a year earlier. After a recruitment officer for the Cometa Mission of the...
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Review of We Are Villains
We Are Villains by Kacen CallenderHigh School Amulet/Abrams 288 pp.3/25 9781419756894 $19.99e-book ed. 9781647004132 $17.99Contrary to official sources, Milo doesn’t believe his best friend Arianna’s death was an accident. As a Black trans scholarship student at an elite private high school where the oppressive social hierarchy is enforced through constant...
The Bad Idea and Other Stories [Earl & Worm]by Greg Pizzoli; illus. by the authorPrimary Knopf 72 pp.4/25 9780593649664 $10.99Library ed. 9780593649671 $13.99e-book ed. 9780593649688 $6.99In the first of three episodic chapters in this series debut, Worm is irritated by her new neighbor, Earl, a bird. “Why is he up...
When Sally O’Malley Discovered the Sea by Karen CushmanIntermediate, Middle School Knopf 240 pp.3/25 9780593650578 $17.99Library ed. 9780593650585 $20.99e-book ed. 9780593650592 $10.99Sally, aged thirteen, is a plucky heroine in the best tradition of the orphan narrative. It’s 1894 in central Oregon, and Sally has had it with being demeaned, so...
Max in the Land of Lies [Operation Kinderspion]by Adam GidwitzMiddle School Dutton 352 pp.2/25 9780593112113 $18.99e-book ed. 9780593112120 $10.99This sequel picks up where Max in the House of Spies (rev. 3/24) ended, with just-turning-thirteen Max parachuting into Nazi Germany on a mission for the British government—although his own motives are...
Sọmadịna by Akwaeke EmeziHigh School Knopf 304 pp.4/25 9780593309070 $19.99e-book ed. 9780593309094 $10.99Fifteen-year-old Sọmadịna has always been close to her twin brother, Jayaike. He is the one person she can count on to support her in the face of anything, from prejudice to their mother’s emotional withdrawal after their beloved...
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