Book Reviews
The Winter of the Dollhouse by Laura Amy Schlitz Intermediate, Middle School Candlewick 400 pp. 9/25 9781536236088 $18.99 e-book ed. 9781536247589 $18.99 Tiph is a child who is pulled in many directions. She loves her younger half siblings but is fed up with the chaos of a house with babies....
The Last Resort by Erin Entrada Kelly; illus. by Naomi Franquiz Intermediate, Middle School Scholastic 240 pp. 9/25 9781546132431 $17.99 e-book ed. 9781546132455 $17.99 In this supernatural murder mystery, the versatile Kelly (2025 Newbery medalist for The First State of Being, rev. 5/24) skillfully balances otherworldly horrors with more realistic...
If Looks Could Kill by Julie Berry High School Simon 448 pp. 9/25 9781534470811 $21.99 e-book ed. 9781534470835 $10.99 This expansive historical novel with Medusa-inspired fantasy elements features Jack the Ripper, Salvation Army missionaries, and new-made Gorgons in New York’s Bowery, 1888. With two principal viewpoints, Berry alternates between the...
Sisters in the Wind by Angeline Boulley High School Holt 384 pp. 9/25 9781250328533 $19.99 e-book ed. 9781250328540 $11.99 Lucy Smith knows that someone is following her, and she decides it’s time to leave town. At first she suspects the handsome Potawatomi man who insists on talking to her at...
The Forest of a Thousand Eyes by Frances Hardinge; illus. by Emily Gravett Intermediate, Middle School Amulet/Abrams 128 pp. 8/25 9781419777783 $19.99 e-book ed. 9798887074511 $17.99 Hardinge and Gravett pair up again (Island of Whispers, rev. 7/24) in a short, atmospheric tale told through Hardinge’s skillful fairy-tale prose and Gravett’s...
Sugar Shack by Lucy Knisley; illus. by the author; color by Whitney Cogar Intermediate, Middle School RH Graphic/Random 240 pp. 8/25 9780593125502 $21.99 Library ed. 9781984896919 $24.99 Paper ed. 9781984896902 $13.99 e-book ed. 9781984896926 $8.99 This third installment of the graphic-novel series (starting with Stepping Stones, rev. 5/20) finds Jen,...
School Dance [Brinkley Yearbooks] by Sarah Sax; illus. by the author Intermediate, Middle School Knopf 288 pp. 8/25 9780593306963 $21.99 Library ed. 9780593306970 $24.99 Paper ed. 9780593306956 $13.99 e-book ed. 9780593306987 $8.99 In this third installment of the graphic-novel series (Picture Day, rev. 9/23; Tryouts, rev. 7/24), wallflower Milo Castillo...
Graciela in the Abyss by Meg Medina; illus. by Anna Balbusso and Elena Balbusso Intermediate, Middle School Candlewick 256 pp. 7/25 9781536219456 $18.99 e-book ed. 9781536244960 $18.99 When Graciela fell to her death into the sea as a girl, she became, after a one-hundred-year sleep, a sea spirit. Now she’s...
The Midwatch Institute for Wayward Girls by Judith Rossell; illus. by the author Intermediate, Middle School Dial 320 pp. 5/25 9798217002405 $18.99 Oppressed orphans, a boarding school, a 1920s setting, a determined heroine, and an exuberant mystery plot—we think we’ve seen it all before, but this entertaining romp has some...
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