Book Reviews
The Nine Moons of Han Yu and Luli by Karina Yan Glaser; illus. by the authorIntermediate, Middle School Allida/HarperCollins 432 pp.9/25 9780063284432 $19.99Make space on your shelf for this delectable, suspenseful adventure spanning more than a thousand years. Eleven-year-old Luli Lee lives in 1930s New York City, in the tightly...
The Tinkerers by Caroline CarlsonIntermediate, Middle School Candlewick 480 pp.10/25 9781536230505 $18.99Twelve-year-old Peter Huckaby-Green’s life changes when the Tinkerers arrive in his close-knit town of Stargazers Valley. Peter directs the two astromancers to his parents’ inn and agrees to help with their research into starstuff, a magical substance left by...
Reasons to Hate Me by Susan MetalloHigh School Candlewick 400 pp.9/25 9781536240351 $18.99High school senior Jess finds herself a pariah when her best friend Chloe’s boyfriend, Noah, sends a school-wide text claiming that she tried “to have sex with me.” Now Jess and Chloe aren’t speaking, and Chloe’s new friends...
Coach [Track]by Jason ReynoldsIntermediate, Middle School Dlouhy/Atheneum 256 pp.10/25 9798347102372 $17.99Middle-school athletes Ghost, Lu, Patina, and Sunny each have their own titles in Reynolds’s Track series (most recently Lu, rev. 11/18); now it’s Coach’s turn. Who was he before he was an inspiring leader? How did he grow up to...
The Poisoned King [Impossible Creatures]by Katherine Rundell; illus. by Ashley MackenzieMiddle School Knopf 304 pp.9/25 9780593809907 $19.99When Christopher Forrester returns to the Glimouria Archipelago, conditions could not be more dire: the ancient, wise dragons are dying, and the dragon Sarkany, on whose back Christopher flew in Impossible Creatures (rev. 9/24),...
Truth Is by Hannah V. SawyerrHigh School Amulet/Abrams 480 pp.9/25 9781419776830 $21.99e-book ed. 9798887074016 $19.79This verse novel’s protagonist, high school senior Truth Bangura, does not make the grades her moralizing best friend does, but she still has goals beyond what her overbearing mother and her guidance counselor believe she’s entitled...
How to Say Goodbye in Cuban by Daniel Miyares; illus. by the authorMiddle School Schwartz/Random 240 pp.9/25 9780593568293 $21.99Paper ed. 9780593568309 $13.99Library ed. 9780593568316 $24.99In this fictional graphic novel based on Miyares’s father’s childhood, Carlos is growing up in the Cuban countryside in 1956. He loves spending time with his...
Your Turn Marisol Rainey by Erin Entrada Kelly; illus. by the authorPrimary, Intermediate Greenwillow 160 pp.8/25 9780063337213 $18.99On the last day of spring vacation, Marisol and her best friend, Jada, decide that they will adopt “new and improved” personalities. To satisfy their plan, Marisol, usually quiet and reserved, vows to...
Defanged by H.E. EdgmonMiddle School Feiwel 240 pp.9/25 9781250874009 $17.99Lux Priddy has always considered himself a good vampire who doesn’t make trouble for others, unlike those scary, violent vampires rumored to live in an underground society called Nox Urbus. In theory, he should be fine with being Defanged, a procedure...
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