Book Reviews
They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid’s Poemsby David BowlesMiddle School Cinco Puntos 109 pp. g9/18 978-1-947627-06-2 $18.95Paper ed. 978-1-947627-07-9 $12.95The dynamic complexity of the Rio Grande borderlands pulses in the poetry of twelve-year-old Güero — a nickname commonly given to light-skinned, freckled Mexican and Chicano boys. Inspired by the...
The Ghostly Carousel: Delightfully Frightful Poemsby Calef Brown; illus. by the authorPrimary Carolrhoda 32 pp.8/18 978-1-5124-2661-8 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-5415-2468-2 $17.99Brown (Soup for Breakfast, rev. 3/09; Hypnotize a Tiger, rev. 3/15) gives his quirky, funny verse and art a spooky twist here with seventeen poems celebrating ghosts, witches, demons, and even...
Between the Linesby Nikki Grimes; read by Cherise Boothe, Lori Gardner, Almarie Guerra, Sisi Aisha Johnson, Edward Lopez, Ruffin Prentiss, and James ShippyMiddle School, High School Recorded BooksRev. 3/18 4 CDs 4 hrs. 978-1-5019-6261-5 $13.99Nine high school students take turns giving readers their impressions of a poetry class they’re all...
Friends and Foes: Poems About Us Allby Douglas Florian; illus. by the authorPrimary Beach Lane/Simon 48 pp.7/18 978-1-4424-8795-6 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-4424-8796-3 $10.99This collection of twenty-five poems teases out many of friendship’s fundamentals, as well as its more nuanced complexities. Along with jealousy, bullies, and new and imaginary friends, the punchy...
Vivid: Poems & Notes About Colorby Julie Paschkis; illus. by the authorPrimary Godwin/Holt 32 pp.7/18 978-1-250-12229-2 $17.99Fourteen color poems pair with vibrant gouache illustrations, beginning with the color yellow: “Loudly, rowdy / daffodils yell hello. / Hot yellow.” The poem, set inside a bright sun, blazes above butterflies, birds, flowers, and a...
Reboundby Kwame Alexander; illus. by Dawud AnyabwileIntermediate, Middle School Houghton 414 pp.4/18 978-0-544-86813-7 $16.99In this prequel to Alexander’s Newbery Medal–winning The Crossover (rev. 5/14), it’s the summer of 1988, and twelve-year-old Charlie Bell would rather roller-skate with his two best friends or escape into the pages of his beloved Fantastic...
Jazz Owls: A Novel of the Zoot Suit Riotsby Margarita Engle; illus. by Rudy GutierrezMiddle School, High School Atheneum 179 pp. g5/18 978-1-5344-0943-9 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-5344-0945-3 $10.99In 1942 Los Angeles, after working all day at the canneries, teen sisters Lorena and Marisela can’t wait to put on their sharpest swing...
Fiction and Poetry Winner The Poet Xby Elizabeth AcevedoHigh School HarperTeen 361 pp. g3/18 978-0-06-266280-4 $17.99e-book ed. 978-0-06-266282-8 $9.99Fifteen-year-old Xiomara, whose name means “one who is ready for war,” has been fighting her whole life. The self-described “brown and big and angry” Dominican girl from Harlem furiously confronts catcalling boys,...
Did You Hear What I Heard?: Poems About Schoolby Kay Winters; illus by Patrice BartonPrimary Dial 40 pp. g2/18 978-0-399-53898-8 $16.99Thirty-five poems cover the school year from “Bus Stop” to “Sing a Song of Summer,” with a fire drill, a snow day, April Fool’s Day, and Earth Day in between....
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