Book Reviews
We Are Still Here!: Native American Truths Everyone Should Know by Traci Sorell; illus. by Frané Lessac Primary, Intermediate Charlesbridge 40 pp. g 4/21 978-1-62354-192-7 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-63289-973-6 $9.99 In this informational picture book by the team behind We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga (rev. 11/18), a diverse group of students...
America My Love, America My Heart by Daria Peoples-Riley; illus. by the author Primary Greenwillow 40 pp. g 4/21 978-0-06-299329-8 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-308934-1 $12.99 In an immediate, evocative text, a child of color asks America — her country, which she loves — if America loves her back. Against black,...
Dear Treefrog by Joyce Sidman; illus. by Diana Sudyka Primary Houghton 40 pp. g 5/21 978-0-358-06476-3 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-358-06671-2 $12.99 In what is in essence a nonfiction early-chapter-book in verse, a young girl moves to a new home. She’s lonely, but when she explores the garden, she observes a...
Maybe Maybe Marisol Rainey by Erin Entrada Kelly; illus. by the author Primary, Intermediate Greenwillow 160 pp. g 5/21 978-0-06-297042-8 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-297044-2 $8.99 Kelly (Newbery medalist for Hello, Universe, rev. 3/17, and honoree for We Dream of Space, rev. 5/20) reaches out to a younger audience in an...
Walk Toward the Rising Sun: From Child Soldier to Ambassador of Peace by Ger Duany with Garen Thomas High School Make Me a World/Random 320 pp. g 9/20 978-1-5247-1940-1 $18.99 Library ed. 978-1-5247-1941-8 $21.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5247-1942-5 $11.99 In this vivid memoir, Duany recounts his experience as a Lost Boy....
Middletown by Sarah Moon Middle School Levine Querido 288 pp. g 4/21 978-1-64614-042-8 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-1-64614-107-4 $9.99 Thirteen-year-old Eli and her big sister Anna, seventeen, are used to fending for themselves and covering up their mother’s excessive drinking; they’ve been doing it for years. However, things come to a...
Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff Middle School Dial 192 pp. g 4/21 978-0-593-11115-4 $16.99 Bug has always believed his family’s old Vermont farmhouse is haunted — partly because of shadows and creaks, and partly because he often “catch[es] a glimpse of something in the mirror that isn’t me.”...
Hello, Jimmy! by Anna Walker; illus. by the author Primary Clarion 40 pp. g 2/21 978-0-358-19358-6 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-0-358-36090-2 $12.99 Jack doesn’t live with his dad full time, and lately when he stays with him, the house seems especially quiet. Although the text never uses the word depressed, this...
Carpenter’s Helper by Sybil Rosen; illus. by Camille Garoche Primary Schwartz & Wade/Random 40 pp. g 3/21 978-0-593-12320-1 $17.99 Library ed. 978-0-593-12321-8 $20.99 e-book ed. 978-0-593-12322-5 $10.99 It is spring, and Renata is helping Papi renovate the bathroom. They cut a hole in the wall where the new window will...
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