Book Reviews
Honey and Me by Meira DrazinIntermediate, Middle School Scholastic 304 pp.10/22 9781338155433 $17.99Milla and Honey are best friends who spend time together at synagogue but have always attended different Orthodox schools. When Honey and her siblings transfer to narrator Milla’s school at the beginning of sixth grade, the colliding worlds...
When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb High School Levine Querido 408 pp. 10/22 9781646141760 $19.99 In this expansive queer tale that marries historical fiction with inventive world-building based on Jewish folklore, a demon called Little Ash (short for Ashmedai) and an angel who takes on different...
The Infinite Questions of Dottie Bing by Molly B. Burnham; illus. by Fanny LiemIntermediate Dial 208 pp.1/23 9780593406663 $17.99e-book ed. 9780593406670 $10.99Ten-year-old Dottie’s treehouse-construction plans are interrupted when Grandpa Walter shows up at the family’s front door, a Chock full o’Nuts coffee can in tow. Mourning the recent loss of...
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Review of The Carrefour Curse
The Carrefour Curse by Dianne K. SalerniIntermediate, Middle School Holiday 224 pp.1/23 9780823452675 $18.99e-book ed. 9780823455027 $10.99This spooky, dark, and utterly delicious tale begins with a bang: protagonist Garnet is vomiting up frogs, a pestilence that will ease only when she returns to Crossroad House, the house her mother grew...
Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim by Patricia ParkHigh School Crown 304 pp.2/23 9780593563373 $18.99Library ed. 9780593563380 $21.99e-book ed. 9780593563397 $10.99“Who is the ‘real’ Alejandra Kim?” A high school senior at an affluent prep school, she has her heart set on attending the prestigious but expensive Whyder College...
Sisters of the Lost Marsh by Lucy StrangeIntermediate, Middle School Chicken House/Scholastic 304 pp.1/23 9781338686463 $18.99Because of a (fictional) traditional rhyme that claims—or threatens—six motherless sisters’ destinies according to birth order, their violent, often-drunk Dadder trades the beautiful eldest, Grace, as wife in exchange for a horse. When Grace escapes...
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Review of Wolfish
Wolfish by Christiane M. AndrewsIntermediate, Middle School Little, Brown 416 pp.11/22 9780316496063 $16.99e-book ed. 9780316496070 $9.99A boy, born eleventh in line to the crown, finds himself to be first after a series of mysterious and unlikely accidents—and then he becomes king. Alba, an oracle’s apprentice, is stricken by the way...
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Review of Sincerely Sicily
Sincerely Sicily by Tamika BurgessIntermediate, Middle School Harper/HarperCollins 304 pp.1/23 9780063159600 $17.99e-book ed. 9780063159624 $8.99Sicily Jordan had been excited about starting sixth grade with her friend group, the “Tether Squad” (including coordinated “outfits for almost the entire first month”). A last-minute redistricting plan means she has to transfer to Shirley...
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Review of Buffalo Flats
Buffalo Flats by Martine LeavittMiddle School, High School Ferguson/Holiday 240 pp.4/23 9780823443420 $18.99e-book ed. 9780823443758 $9.99Based on family history, Leavitt’s coming-of-age story is set in an 1890s Mormon settler community in Southern Alberta, Canada, at the eastern edges of the Rockies, and focuses on seventeen-year-old Rebecca. In an opening both...
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