Book Reviews
Ling & Ting: Twice as Sillyby Grace Lin; illus. by the authorPrimary Little, Brown 44 pp.11/14 978-0-316-18402-1 $16.00Lin’s third Ling and Ting easy reader (Ling & Ting: Not Exactly the Same, rev. 7/10; Ling & Ting Share a Birthday, rev. 9/13) is certainly a silly one, with each of the...
Stella by Starlightby Sharon M. DraperIntermediate Atheneum 324 pp.1/15 978-1-4424-9497-8 $16.99 ge-book ed. 978-1-4424-9499-2 $10.99Eleven-year-old Stella Mills may have trouble getting words on paper for school, but she’s a deep thinker, “a gemstone hiding inside a rock,” her mother tells her. Even on the coldest of nights, she sneaks out...
In the January/February 2015 issue of The Horn Book Magazine, editor Martha Parravano talked to Sharon M. Draper about her new intermediate novel Stella by Starlight. Read the full review here.Martha V. Parravano: Have you ever tried to write by starlight?Sharon M. Draper: I’ve marveled at the moon — the...
Glory O’Brien’s History of the Futureby A. S. KingHigh School Little, Brown 309 pp.10/14 978-0-316-22272-3 $18.00e-book ed. 978-0-316-22274-7 $9.99Still haunted by her mother’s suicide years ago, seventeen-year-old Glory is certain she’ll die young, too, and can envision no future for herself. Until, that is, she ingests dessicated bat remains and...
Katniss, they feel your pain. The following protagonists have the weight of the world on their shoulders — and, in at least one case, it's just as the world may be ending.Katie Coyle's Vivian Apple at the End of the World takes place in a near-future America where the cultish...
Discover some new favorite characters or keep up with old ones. These series installments can stand on their own or perhaps start a new series obsession.Sleuth on Skates, first in the Sesame Seade Mystery series by Clémentine Beauvais, introduces a type-A, roller-skating kid detective from Cambridge, England with a large...
The Darkest Part of the Forestby Holly BlackHigh School Little, Brown 323 pp.1/15 978-0-316-21307-3 $18.00 ge-book ed. 978-0-316-21305-9 $9.99The people of Fairfold live beside the fairy folk with scant worry and not a little smugness. After all, only foolish tourists, lured to town by legend and the beautiful horned prince...
Belzharby Meg WolitzerHigh School Dutton 264 pp.9/14 978-0-525-42305-8 $17.99 gAfter her boyfriend Reeve’s death, Jam Gallahue is shipped off to The Wooden Barn, a boarding school for “emotionally fragile, highly intelligent” teens. There she’s placed in a widely coveted, extremely selective course called Special Topics in English, one of just...
Have you ever read a book and thought to yourself, “Man, I wish this could be real?” Well, unfortunately, no one I know has ever gotten an owl-delivered acceptance letter to Hogwarts, but that doesn’t mean that there isn’t a little bit of the Wizarding World out here for us...
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