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Review of Oasis

Oasis by Guojing; illus. by the authorIntermediate, Middle School    Godwin/Holt    160 pp.2/25    9781250818379    $21.99Paper ed.  9781250818386    $14.99e-book ed.  9781250415790    $9.99As this graphic novel opens, JieJie and her younger brother, Didi, press their way through a windswept landscape toward an isolated telephone booth in the desert. It’s their way of reaching...

Review of And She Was Loved: Toni Morrison’s Life in Stories

And She Was Loved: Toni Morrison’s Life in Stories by Andrea Davis Pinkney; illus. by Daniel Minter Primary, Intermediate    Little, Brown    48 pp. 1/25    9780316182362    $18.99 Toni Morrison (1931–2019), a gifted student, was the only Black girl in her Lorain, Ohio, first-grade class. She grew up to be a trailblazing...

Review of All the Blues in the Sky

All the Blues in the Sky by Renée WatsonMiddle School    Bloomsbury    208 pp.2/25    9781547605897    $17.99e-book ed.  9781547605903    $12.59“I didn’t know / best friends could die.” From the very first line, Watson takes a deep dive into the intricacies of grief and healing. On her thirteenth birthday, Sage is looking forward...

Review of Everything Is Poison

Everything Is Poison by Joy McCulloughHigh School    Dutton    304 pp.1/25    9780593855874    $19.99e-book ed.  9780593855898    $10.99In 1650s Rome, Carmela’s mother, Giulia Tofana, runs an apothecary. At sixteen, Carmela is finally allowed to begin training to become an apothecary herself. She learns what goes into healing remedies—familiar herbs such as lavender, rosemary,...

Review of Afloat

Afloat by Kirli Saunders; illus. by Freya BlackwoodPrimary    Levine/Levine Querido    32 pp.3/25    9781646145072    $18.99Saunders, a member of the Gunai people, writes about weaving, water, and wisdom in this picture book first published in Australia. The spare and straightforward text describes yarning, which can refer both to fiber arts and to...

Review of The Lost Ones

The Lost Ones [Moonwind Mysteries]by Johan Rundberg; trans. from Swedish by Eva ApelqvistMiddle School    Amazon Crossing Kids    222 pp.1/25    9781662525940    $17.99Paper ed.  9781662525957    $9.99Rundberg’s pair of 1880s detectives—twelve-year-old orphan Mika from Stockholm’s Public Children’s Home and police detective Valdemar Hoff—investigate the disappearance of a wealthy family’s teenage daughter, Beatrice. “Children...

Review of Head Full of Clouds

Head Full of Clouds by Joanne Schwartz; illus. by Afsaneh SaneiPrimary    Tundra    40 pp.3/25    9781774881613    $18.99e-book ed.  9781774881620    $10.99A contemplative, inviting second-person text and playfully surreal illustrations capture the nature of dreams and the magic of the real world. One morning a child wakes up with “a little leftover piece...

Review of A Forest Song

A Forest Song by Kirsten Hall; illus. by Evan TurkPrimary    Random House Studio/Random    40 pp.2/25    9780593480366    $18.99Library ed.  9780593480373    $21.99e-book ed.  9780593480380    $8.99This cento (a poem composed of passages from other writers) pays reverent tribute to the natural world, weaving together the words of poets such as Emily Dickinson, Mary...

Review of Song of a Blackbird

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...
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