Book Reviews
A Skinful of Shadowsby Frances HardingeMiddle School, High School Amulet/Abrams 415 pp.10/17 978-1-4197-2572-2 $19.99Hardinge’s (The Lie Tree, rev. 5/16) latest tour de force is set during the reign of King Charles I against the backdrop of the 1600s English Civil War and is, as unlikely as it sounds, something of...
Long Way Downby Jason ReynoldsHigh School Dlouhy/Atheneum 306 pp. g10/17 978-1-4814-3825-4 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-4814-3827-8 $10.99Fifteen-year-old Will, immobilized with grief when his older brother Shawn is shot and killed, slowly comes to mull The Rules in his head. There are three: don’t cry, don’t snitch, and “if someone you love / gets...
The Memory of Thingsby Gae PolisnerHigh School St. Martin’s Griffin 275 pp.9/16 978-1-250-09552-7 $18.99 ge-book ed. 978-1-250-09553-4 $9.99It’s the morning of September 11, 2001, in Manhattan, and the first tower has just fallen. Sixteen-year-old Brooklynite Kyle, fleeing toward home, stumbles upon a teenage girl wearing a pair of costume wings...
Garvey’s Choiceby Nikki GrimesIntermediate, Middle School WordSong/Boyds Mills 108 pp.10/16 978-1-62979-740-3 $16.95e-book ed. 978-1-62979-747-2 $7.99In a little book of little poems, Grimes tells a big-hearted story of Garvey (named after Marcus Garvey), an overweight boy tormented by name-calling at school: “lard butt, fatso, Mister Tubs.” Of his size, he says,...
The preteen years are full of new experiences and challenges. These four audiobooks — three novels, and one book of advice — all involve aspects of growing up and exploring one's identity.For Archer Magill, main character of Richard Peck's 2017 Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book The Best Man, sixth grade...
When My Sister Started Kissingby Helen FrostIntermediate, Middle School Ferguson/Farrar 195 pp.3/17 978-0-374-30303-7 $16.99 gClaire and Abigail have few memories of their mother — she died when they were very young — but at their family’s lakeside cabin, the girls are surrounded by the poetry,...
We Come Apartby Brian Conaghan and Sarah CrossanHigh School Bloomsbury 312 pp. g6/17 978-1-68119-275-8 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-68119-276-5 $12.99Two troubled UK teens forge an unlikely romance in this novel in verse. Jess, a jaded tough girl, nicked some cosmetics with friends who let her take...
Oh, I owe some of you fantasy writers an apology. Over on Twitter, I've been pretty hard on your Capital Letters and apostrophes and archaisms and spelling. Mostly spelling, like "magick," or, gilding the lily, "enmagick."And then there's faery. That's a spelling that has been the fingernails on my personal chalkboard...
Flying Lessons & Other Storiesedited by Ellen OhIntermediate, Middle School Crown 225 pp.1/17 978-1-101-93459-3 $16.99Library ed. 978-1-101-93460-9 $19.99 ge-book ed. 978-1-101-93461-6 $10.99Edited by Oh, cofounder of We Need Diverse Books, ten stories by (mostly) well-known authors of diverse backgrounds present young protagonists dealing with common themes of growing up —...
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