Book Reviews
Chasing King’s Killer: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Assassinby James L. Swanson; read by Kim StauntonMiddle School, High School Scholastic Audio5 CDs 5.67 hrs. 978-1-338-22724-6 $29.99With intensity and clarity, Swanson documents the lives of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and James Earl Ray — King’s assassin — and...
Spooked!: How a Radio Broadcast and The War of the Worlds Sparked the 1938 Invasion of Americaby Gail JarrowIntermediate, Middle School Calkins Creek/Boyds Mills 142 pp.8/18 978-1-62979-776-2 $18.95e-book ed. 978-1-68437-143-3 $9.99In 1938, on the night before Halloween, an American radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells’s...
Votes for Women: American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot by Winifred Conkling; read by Christina Moore Middle School, High School Recorded Books Rev. 3/18 6 CDs 7.25 hrs. 978-1-5019-7193-8 $20.99 Narrator Moore has a deep, resonant alto with a no-nonsense quality that perfectly embodies the resolve of America’s...
Water Land: Land and Water Forms
Around the Worldby Christy Hale; illus. by the authorPrimary, Intermediate Porter/Roaring Brook 32 pp.5/18 978-1-250-15244-2 $17.99Die-cuts serve both useful and playful purpose in this introduction to Earth’s various meetings of water and landforms. A boy idyllically fishes on a small pond while a girl...
Girl Running: Bobbi Gibb and the Boston Marathonby Annette Bay Pimentel; illus. by Micha ArcherPrimary Paulsen/Penguin 32 pp. g2/18 978-1-101-99668-3 $17.99"Bobbi Gibb must wear a skirt to school because she is a girl. She is not allowed to run on the school's track team. Because those are the rules —...
Alexander, Kwame Animal Ark: Celebrating Our Wild World in Poetry and PicturesGr. K–3 48 pp. National GeographicPhotographs by Joel Sartore. With Mary Rand Hess and Deanna Nikaido. Striking, detailed photographs of animals appear against black or white backgrounds as descriptive, sometimes metaphorical text plays loosely with the haiku form. Word...
Martí’s Song for Freedom / Martí y sus versos por la libertadby Emma Otheguy; illus. by Beatriz Vidal; with excerpts from Versos sencillos by José Martí; trans. into Spanish by Adriana DomínguezPrimary Children’s/Lee & Low 32 pp. g7/17 978-0-89239-375-6 $17.95“I come from every place, / And I’m on the road to everywhere: /...
Bound by Ice: A True North Pole Survival Storyby Sandra Neil Wallace and Rich WallaceIntermediate, Middle School Calkins/Boyds Mills 192 pp. g9/17 978-1-62979-428-0 $17.95e-book ed. 978-1-62979-915-5 $9.99Ten thousand people cheered as the steamer Jeannette departed San Francisco, off to the North Pole, in 1879, seeking to expand human knowledge and...
These nonfiction audiobooks, recommended for middle-school listeners and up, highlight a variety of memorable moments and important figures throughout human history.Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune is the bloody, heroic saga of an iconic twelfth-century samurai. Author Pamela S. Turner combines meticulous historical detail with conversational modernity and...
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